ORDER :

This petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., praying this Court to quash the FIR and complaint in Crime No.129/2018 of Raghavendra Nagar Police Station, pending on the file of II Additional Sessions Judge, Kalaburagi in FIR No.74/2018 for offences punishable under Section 504 read with Section 34 of IPC and section 3(1)(x) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. Heard the learned counsel for petitioners and the learned High Court Government Pleader for respondent-State and learned counsel for respondent No.2.

3. The factual matrix of the case is that the respondent No.2 in his complaint dated 31.07.2018 gave a complaint to the police against the petitioners herein alleging that the complainant did not support the petitioners for their corruption and hence having ill-will against the complainant subjected him for caste humiliation and not paid salary for a period of 15 months. These two petitioners belong to Lingayat community and this harassment continued from April-2007 till date of filing the complaint. It is also alleged in the complaint that a complaint was filed against the complainant/respondent No.2 h