JUDGMENT

1. The petitioner/accused No.7 is before this Court calling in question proceedings in C.C.No.51315 of 2021 which arose out of Crime No.638 of 2019 registered for offences punishable under Ss. 447 and 506 r/w 34 of the IPC.

2. Facts, in brief, germane are as follows:

The 2nd respondent is the complainant. The petitioner and the 2nd respondent are said to know each other for close to 15 years. The families of both the persons are said to be close friends. It is averred that in the year 2013 the 2nd respondent after his marriage had shifted to the house of the petitioner at Bangalore and had been a tenant from 2013 to 2018. It is again averred that they had cordial relationship between themselves. It appears that during the year 2018 the relationship between the complainant and his wife had floundered. The wife had registered certain cases against the 2nd respondent/husband. The first of the cases sought to be registered was on 20/5/2019 by the wife of the 2nd respondent against him which ends up in issuance of non-cognizable report in N.C.R.No.431 of 2019 asking the parties to settle the dispute. After the said attempt to register the crime against him, the 2nd respondent fi