IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.1961 OF 2009 Between: Akinapalli Bhagvanthaiah & another … PETITIONERS And The State of A.P. & another … RESPONDENTS This Court made the following: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.1961 OF 2009 ORDER: 1. The petitioners 1 and 2 are parents of husband of the second respondent/aggrieved party who filed D.V.C.No.3 of 2009 on the file of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, at Lalbahadur Nagar. Not only in the representation by the second respondent addressed to the Protection Officer but also in the petition presented by the Protection Officer in prescribed form before the lower Court, several reliefs are claimed by the second respondent including protection under Section 18, residence under Section 19 and also monetary relief of compensation under Section 22 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (in short, the Act) not only against the husband but also against his parents who are the petitioners herein. 2. Having regard to allegations made in the above documents and reliefs claimed, it cannot be said that the petitioners are not necessary parties to the case and that they were impleaded with a view to harass them. Reliefs under the Act are purely civil in nature, but are decided by a criminal Court. In that view of the matter, this Court does not find it necessary that the petitioners 1 and 2 should be present in person before the lower Court on every date of adjournment. 3. In the result, the criminal petition is dismissed. However, the lower Court is directed to dispense with presence of the petitioners 1 and 2 who are the respondents 2 and 3 in D.V.C.No.3 of 2009 during enquiry of the case, except on the date of delivery of order by that Court. ______________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J August 19, 2010 KL HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.1961 OF 2009 August 19, 2010 KL