ORDER :

1. This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) is filed to quash the proceedings in C.C. No. 116 of 2020 on the file of the Additional Junior Civil Judge, Mangalagiri, registered for the offence punishable under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’).

2. The petitioner is the accused in the aforesaid Calendar Case. Basing on a report lodged by 2nd respondent/defacto complainant, a case in Crime No. 24 of 2019 of Mangalagiri Town police station was registered against the petitioner/accused, and after completion of investigation, police laid charge sheet for the offence punishable under Section 354 IPC. The allegations, in brief, of the charge sheet are as follows:

2nd respondent/defacto complainant is a house wife. Municipal authorities were digging a canal in front of their house in Koppuravuri Colony, Mangalagiri town. On 25.10.2020 at about 2.30 PM, when LW-2 P. Venkateswara Rao and other colony members were discussing the issue, the accused, residing in the lane beside, went and had talk with him and insulted him and others. On that, when 2nd respondent/defacto complainant asked the petitioner