IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY THE TWENTYFIRST DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7180 OF 2010. Between: Alugumanu Vijayakumar & 2-ors … Petitioners V/s. The State of Andhra Pradesh Represented by its Public Prosecutor High Court of A.P. Hyderabad & Anr. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners : Sri Md. Saleem Counsel for the first respondent: Public Prosecutor THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7180 OF 2010. O R D E R: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners under section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to stay all further proceedings including the appearance of the petitioners in CC.No. 254 of 2009 on the file of the Court of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Punganur, Chittoor district, pending disposal of the criminal petition before this court and to pass such other suitable orders as this Court may deems fit and proper in the circumstances of the case. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Public Prosecutor for the respondents. 3. It is seen from the record that the petitioners and second respondent are related to each other. Further the petitioners are charge sheeted for the alleged offences under section 353, 323, 506 read with section 34 IPC on the complaint lodged by the second respondent herein before the Station House Officer, Punganur Police Station alleging that while he was working as Asst.Engineer at 132 KV Sub-Station, Punganur on 31-10-2008 he got inter caste marriage with A. Parimala, who belongs to scheduled caste, who is also working as Asst.Engineer at 132 KV Sub-Station, Burakyalakota and have been living happily. It is further alleged that the marriage was agreed by her parents-in-law but the petitioners 1 and 3 were not agreed and bore grudge against him and have been quarrelling and threatening him through phones. It is also alleged that on 05-6-2009 while he was discharging his official duties at 132 KV sub-station, Punganur that petitioners interfered and threatened and also beat with hands, kicked with legs and thrown him down from the chair. It is alleged that the employees witnessed the incident and rescued him. On the basis of the said complaint, the police registered a case in Cr.No.123 of 2009 against the petitioners on 05-6-2009 at 05:00 p.m. for the offences referred hereinabove. After completion of investigation, the police filed charge sheet and the same was taken on file as CC.No. 254 of 2009 on the file of the Court of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Punganur, Chittoor district. 4. After hearing the elaborate arguments of the learned counsel for the petitioners, this Court is not inclined to quash the charge sheet in CC.No. 254 of 2009, prima facie, the incident occurred while the second respondent was discharging his official duties at 132 KV Sub-Station, Punganur and that the petitioners interfered, threatened and beat with hands, kicked with legs and thrown him down from the chair and the said incident was witnessed by the employees, who rescued him from the clutches of the petitioners. At this stage, the learned counsel for the petitioners sought indulgence of this court to dispense with the personal attendance of the petitioners before the trial court. 5. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and taking into consideration the submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, this Court is of the view that the personal attendance of the petitioners is dispensed with before the trial court and they can be represented through their counsel except on the specific dates when the learned Magistrate insists for the appearance of the petitioner before the trial court. 6. Subject to the above observation, the Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. _______________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO July 21, 2010. I s L THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRL.PETITION No. 7180 OF 2010 Date:21-7-2010