THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 10612 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioners filed the present Criminal Petition with a prayer to quash the proceedings initiated against them in Crime No. 86 of 2011 on the file of the Station House Officer Kethepally Police Station, Nalgonda District, for the offences punishable under Sections 186, 188, 341 and 143 of I.P.C. The F.I.R. was registered against the petitioners on 24.9.2011 for the aforesaid offences. The report runs as follows: “I, K. Ramreddy, HC 268, P.S., Katepalli, submitting the complaint on 24.9.2011 at 10.30 p.m. I along with HC 596 Janaki Ramulu, PC 141, S. Janardhan Reddy, PC 105 V, Anil Reddy PC 2126, S. Venkateswarlu, on receiving the information went to NH No. 9 where some of the persons Bulledda Sriramulu, Chinthamalla Lakshmaiah, Chinthakayala Madhu, R/o. Pamulapahad Village etc., staged a dharna at Uppalapahad Bus Stage on NH No. 9 on the outskirts of Uppalapahad Village by burning the thorney bushes on NH No.9. Thereafter, the TRS party activists 1) Vemula Veeresham; 2) Cheruku Sudhakar, 3) Akkenapally Veeraswamy, 4) Yanala Linga Reddy, 5) Nagulavanch Venkateswar Rao, all R/o. Nakrekal Town along with auto union members 6) Bolledu Sriramulu, 7) Chinthamalla Laxmaiah, 8) Chinthakayala Madhu, R/o. Pamulapahad Village, Vemulapally Mandal and others have formed themselves into an unlawful assembly and staged a dharna in front of Kethepally Police Station on NH No. 9 in between 11.15 hours and 12.15 hours for an hour and wrongfully restrained the general public and vehicle users who were plying on NH No. 9 and obstructed the police while discharging their legitimate duties. Hence, I request you to take action against the above said persons.” On a perusal of the complaint, this Court is of the view that this is a matter which is required to be investigated into and this Court cannot interfere with the investigation of the same. However, if the petitioners apprehend arrest at the hands of respondent-police, they are at liberty to move the District & Sessions Court, Nalgonda by way of a petition for anticipatory bail and on such petition being filed, the learned District and Sessions Judge is directed to consider the same on merits. The Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. _________________ RAJA ELANGO, J. Date: 3.11.2011 pnb