IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SIXTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.5563 OF 2009 Between: 1. Ansuri Chandra Rao 2. Smt. Ansuri Vijayalakshmi ..... Petitioners AND The State of A.P., through the Station House Officer, IV - Town Police Station, Visakhapatnam, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.5563 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Ansuri Chandra Rao and Smt. Ansuri Vijayalakshmi seeking to quash the proceedings against them in D.V.C. No.3 of 2009 on the file of I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam filed under the provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. 2. Heard. 3. The petitioners herein are parents-in-law of the complainant Ansuri Venkata Gowri, respondent No.2 herein. 4. As seen from the reliefs claimed in the D.V.C., the proceedings against the petitioners are maintainable. 5. The contention of the petitioners that the de facto complainant has resided at Singapore, is of no consequence in view of the nature of reliefs claimed in the D.V.C. proceedings. 6. In the circumstances, I see no ground for quashing the impugned proceedings against the petitioners, as such, the petition is liable to be dismissed. 7. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the admission stage itself. __________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J November 26, 2009. PV