Smt. Undavalli Anantha Lakshmi And 2 Others v. The State Of Telangana And Another

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE M. SATYANARAYANA MURTHY CRIMINAL PETITION No.10852 OF 2018 ORDER:

This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short 'Code') is filed by the petitioners - accused Nos.2, 3 and 4 viz., Smt. Undavalli Anantha Lakshmi, Undavalli Surendranath Chandra Mouli Choudary and Smt. Madineni Purna Shravani respectively, to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.583 of 2018 on the file of Chandanagar Police Station, Cyberabad, registered for the offences punishable under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, and Section 3(4)(s)(2) of The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners after arguing for sometime, requested this Court to direct the police to follow the procedure inlaid in Section 41-A of the Code and guidelines formulated by the Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar1.

3. Acceding to the request of the learned counsel for the petitioners and without touching the merits of the case, I deem it appropriate to direct the police to follow the procedure inlaid in Section 41-A of the Code and the guidelines prescribed in Arnesh Kumar1. It is needless to mention that the Hon'ble Supreme Court made it clear that violation of guidelines prescribed in Arnesh Kumar1 1 (2014) 8 SCC 273

MSM,J Crl.P No.10852 of 2018 amounts to Contempt of Court action. Therefore, the Investigating Agency is bound to adhere to the guidelines formulated by the Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar1.

4. With the above directions, the present Criminal Petition is disposed of, at the stage of admission itself. Consequently, Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in the present Criminal Petition, stand closed.

_________________________________ M. SATYANARAYANA MURTHY, J October 11, 2018 Mgr