ORDER:

1. In the present Criminal Petition, filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the petitioner, who is the accused in Sessions Case No.155 of 2013 on the file of the Court of VIII Additional District and Sessions Judge-cum-Special Sessions Judge for Trial of the Offences against Women, Rajamahendravaram, East Godavari District, is seeking quashment of the said Sessions Case. The offences alleged in the charge sheet are Sections 363, 366A and 376 I.P.C.

2. Sum and substance of the case of the prosecution is that the acquaintance of the accused with the daughter of the defacto complainant (2nd respondent herein), who was a

D.Pharmacy student at relevant point of time, led to a situation, where the accused had taken away the daughter of the de facto complainant and married her and they jointly lived at Gummadidhala of Medak District, Telangana State. Though initially the police, on the complaint of the 2nd respondent herein, registered the crime as a case of ‘girl missing’, after recording statement of the girl-L.W.2, altered the F.I.R. and inserted Sections 363, 366A and 376 I.P.C.

3. Heard Smt. M.Indrani, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri S.V.Saina