HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8223 OF 2010 Dated : 11.08.2010 Between : Sayyapu Raju Ravindra Kumar …. Petitioner-A.1 a n d 1) A.Sharesha 2) The State of A.P. … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8223 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioner-A.1 seeking to quash the proceedings in P.R.C.No.16 of 2008 on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, for the offence punishable under Sections 417 and 420 of Indian Penal Code and Section 3 (1) (x) of SCs & STs (POA) Act, 1989. Case of the prosecution is that A.1 having acquaintance with the complainant, induced her to marry him. Having believed the words of A.1, on 02.08.2006 complainant left the house along with A.1 and they started residing in a room separately as wife and husband. A.1 also had sexual intercourse with the complainant. Subsequently, A.1 started avoiding the complainant. When the victim questioned A.1, he refused to accept her as his wife and also denied the knowledge of having intimacy with her. Further accused also abused the complainant by touching her caste name. Heard. Along with this Criminal Petition, petitioner filed an affidavit of the complainant duly signed by her wherein she stated that at the intervention of the elders and well wishers she settled all the disputes with the accused out of the Court and prayed to quash the proceedings against the accused. Today, when the matter is taken up, complainant appeared before this Court and reiterated the contents of the affidavit and also expressed that she is not willing to proceed further in the Criminal Case against the accused. Parties in this case are related to each other. In view of the compromise entered into between the parties, this Court is of the view that any continuation of the criminal proceedings in P.R.C.No.16 of 2008 on the file of IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, will be a futile exercise. Therefore, this Criminal Petition is allowed and the proceedings against the petitioner in P.R.C.No.16 of 2008 on the file of IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, are hereby quashed. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 11.08.2010 sur