Alagar Samy v. The District Protection

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED:22.09.2021

CORAM

THE HON'BLE Mr. JUSTICE C.V.KARTHIKEYAN Crl.O.P.No.29986 of 2015 and M.P.No.1 of 2015 1.Alagar Samy 2.Rajendran 3.Raja 4.Thangaraj 5.Kalaiarasi 6.M.Muthu Samy 7.Vasantha .. Petitioners/Respondents Vs 1.The District Protection Officer, District Collector Office Campus, Coimbatore - 641 004.

2.D.Kamala .. Respondents/Complainants Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., to call for the records and quash the D.V.A.No.65 of 2014 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court No.VI, Coimbatore.

For Petitioners .. Mr.A.Sivaji For Respondents .. Mr.E.Raj Thilak Additional Public Prosecutor https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

ORDER

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.

2. Accordingly, the Criminal Original Petition stands dismissed. Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petition is closed.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS-IX) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar grs/kbs To 1.The Judicial Magistrate Court No.VI, Coimbatore.

2. (Do Through) The Chief Judicial Magistrate Coimbatore.

3.The District Protection Officer, District Collector Office Campus, Coimbatore - 641 004.

Crl.O.P.No.29986 of 2015 and M.P.No.1 of 2015 PL(CO) SB(13/10/2021) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/