THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.4518 OF 2011 Date: 11.07.2011 Between: M.Lakshminarayana and another …..Petitioners And State of A.P., through S.H.O., I Town Police Station, Srisailam, rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad and another …..Respondents THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO.4518 OF 2011 ORDER: Heard Sri T.Vinod Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners and also learned Additional Public Prosecutor. 2. In this petition filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure the petitioners herein who are accused in Crime No.71 of 2008 of Srisailam I Town Police Station are seeking quashing of the F.I.R. in the said case. The offences alleged are those punishable under Sections 420, 324, 323 read with Section 34 I.P.C. and Section 3 (1) (xii) of the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners pointed out that earlier also the de facto complainant gave a complaint to the police against the petitioners and that was registered as crime No.44 of 2006 before the same police station. The concerned police after investigation have closed it. Basing on the said closure report in the earlier case, the counsel for the petitioners has argued that all the allegations in the present F.I.R. are false and the case should be quashed. The various contentions raised by the learned counsel for the petitioners relate to truthfulness or otherwise of the allegations and that question has to be decided on evidence. The mere fact that an earlier case was closed by the police is by itself not a ground for quashing the present F.I.R. 4. Accordingly, this petition is dismissed at the admission stage. ___________________________ JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR 11th July, 2011. Tjmr THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.RAVI SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO.4518 OF 2011 DATE: 11.07.2011