ORDER :

Maheshan Nagaprasanna, J.

1. The petitioner in this petition calls in question the order dated 15-03-2017 of the III Additional Sessions Judge at Tumkur in Special Case No. 266 of 2012 rejecting the application filed by him under Section 227 of the Criminal Procedure Code seeking discharge from the proceedings initiated against him for the offences punishable under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 3(2)(5) and 3(1)(8) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short 'the Atrocities Act').

2. Sans details, facts in brief are as follows:-

The petitioner and the husband/deceased (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased') of the complainant have lands which abut each other. It is alleged that the petitioner, his wife, T.S. Mangala and his elder brother H.S. Lingaraj were responsible for the death of the deceased. The allegation in the complaint against the petitioner, his wife and his brother was that the petitioner had filed several cases against the deceased from 1995 to 2012 and the last of the case filed was on 10-10-2012 and on the very next day the deceased had committed suicide. It is on the said complaint, F