THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.V.SEETHAPATHY CRIMINAL PETITION No.5604 of 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing further proceedings in FIR No.144 of 2010 of Nizamabad III-Town Police Station. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State. Perused the record. On a complaint given by the 1st respondent, the police registered a case in Crime No.144 of 2010 against the petitioner for the offences under Sections 509, 506, 323 IPC. The investigation is pending. The petitioner and the complainant are closely related. The petitioner is stated to be complainant’s mother’s sister’s husband. According to the complainant, after the death of his maternal grand mother Gangubai, about three years back, the petitioner locked the portion of Gangubai and occupied the same though it belonged to the joint family, and the complainants mother’s elder sister filed a suit for partition and the same is pending in the Court. It is further alleged that as the clothes and other household articles belonging to the complainant were kept in the said portion of the house, the complainant and his mother went there at about 6.00 P.M., on 13.06.2010 and asked the petitioner to open the lock, whereupon, the petitioner abused the complainant’s mother in filthy language. The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that in fact the petitioner was beat by the complainant and he suffered a cut injury on the left ear and neck and he gave a complaint to the police which was registered as Crime No.145 of 2010 against the 1st respondent herein, for the offence under Sections 448, 323 and 506, and the said complaint is also pending investigation. Thus, it can be seen that there have been allegations and counter-allegations and, on the complaints given by the petitioner and the 1st respondent, the police have registered a case and counter-case, and both of them are pending investigation. Having regard to the nature of the allegations made in the complaint and, in view of the fact that the allegations have been made against each other by both the parties, the truth or otherwise of the matter can come out only after investigation. It is therefore, considered not a fit case to invoke the inherent powers of the Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. and quash further proceedings in FIR No.144 of 2010. The petitioner who is stated to be a Government employee, however, may not be arrested till completion of investigation. In the result, subject to the above direction, the criminal petition is dismissed. _______________________ G.V.SEETHAPATHY, J 20th October, 2011 KSM