HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7682 OF 2007 DATE:20-01-2011 BETWEEN Chodavarapu Satyanarayana & others …Petitioners AND The State of A.P., Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another …Respondents THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.7682 OF 2007 ORDER: This petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure has been filed to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in F.I.R.No.234 of 2007 pending on the file of Gopalapatnam Police Station, Visakhapatnam registered for the offences punishable under Section 498-A IPC and Section 3 of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The complaint allegations clearly goes to show that A.1, son of the petitioners 1 and 2 herein married the complainant-second respondent herein, who is S.C.-C (Mala) on 25.6.2003 and that the said marriage was registered with the Registrar’s office at Gopalapatnam. During the wedlock, they were blessed with a child. Later, A.1 deceived her and left her on 1.11.2007 with amount of Rs.30,000/- from the joint account of RD, collected Rs.11,000/- from the ATM and 2 ½ tulas of gold and was absconding since then. Basing upon the said complaint, the above crime has been registered. The allegations in the complaint prima facie disclose an offence under Section 498-A IPC and also the offence under Section 3 of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. While admitting the petition, this Court in Crl.M.P.No.5834 of 2007 observed that it is very difficult to hold that there was no prima facie material against the petitioners, but however, stayed the arrest of the petitioners allowing all other proceedings to go on. The counsel representing the learned Public Prosecutor is not in a position to inform the Court the progress made in the investigation and about filing of report before the competent Court. Since the allegations in the complaint prima facie disclose the commission of offence, it is not a fit case to scuttle the investigation at the initial stage. The Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. _________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. JANUARY 20, 2011 Tsr.