Sathya Seelan v. Mrs.M.P.Shankari @ Priya

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATE : 31.08.2021

CORAM

THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE C.V.KARTHIKEYAN Crl.O.P.No.26034 of 2015 and M.P.No.1 of 2015 Satya Seelan

...Petitioner

vs.

Mrs.M.P.Shankari @ Priya

...Respondent

Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to call for the records in C.C.No.2090 of 2015 pending on the file of V Metropolitan Magistrate Egmore, Chennai, quash the proceedings in the same.

For Petitioner : No appearance.

ORDER

When the matter was taken up for hearing, there was no representation for the petitioner.

2.

A learned Single Judge of this Court in a batch of cases in Crl.O.P.No.28458 of 2019 etc., batch, vide common order dated 18.01.2021, in Dr.P.Pathmanathan and 2 others v. Tmt.V.Monica and another (2021 (2) CTC 57), had very categorically held that any proceedings questioning the pendency of complaints preferred under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, should only be preferred as a Civil Revision Petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India and that the petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., would not lie and the same is not maintainable.

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3. Accordingly, the Criminal Original Petition stands dismissed. The connected Miscellaneous Petition is closed. Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS IX) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar ssk.

To

1. V Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, Chennai.

2. -do through- The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore.

Crl.O.P.No.26034 of 2015 and M.P.No.1 of 2015 SS[co] NSK 12/10/2021 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/