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ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Dr. B.Siva Sankara Rao, J.
Kodali Lalitha Kumari —Petitioner
versus
State of A.P. & Ors. —Respondents
Criminal Petition Nos.978, 979, 1124 & 9422 of 2014
Decided on 31.8.2015

Advocates:
Counsel for the Parties:
For the Petitioner:Sri A.Sudhara Rao & Sri G.L.Nageswara Rao, Advocate
For the Respondents: Public Prosecutor
For the Respondent Nos.2 & 3: Party-In-Person

IMPORTANT POINT
Bar under Section 195(1) Cr.P.C is only for taking cognizance on police final report under Section 173 Cr.P.C by Magistrate under Section 190 Cr.P.C, where forgery committed while the documents in Court custody in relation to the documents. It is to say, there is no bar for registering the Crime and investigation by police.

Headnote:Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 195(1)(b) — Bar would be attracted for offences enumerated in the provision committed with respect to a document after it was produced on given in evidence and during the time when document was in Custodia legis — Bar is not attracted for forged document produced in Court — Bar under the provision is only for taking cognizance on police report and there is no bar for registering the crime and investigation by police — Crimes registered for offences u/s 120B, 380, 466 and 468 r/w Section 34 IPC on the report of respondent No.2 complainant alleging that accused stealthily replaced original title deeds of property of defacto complainant with fake document through their advocate which were filed in civil suit and complainant came to know after he filed application for return of those documents — Petitioner seeking quashing of FIR — No grounds for quashing made out till police filed its report and stage of cognizance arose.

       Held: Thus there is no bar for the police registering and investigating the Crime No.24 of 2014 on the report of the defacto- complainants so far as the offence under Section 380 I.P.C concerned, so also for the offences under Sections 466, 468 and 120-B I.P.C in so far as the allegation relates to the alleged notarized and unregistered will dated 15.12.2010 propounded by A- 2 as the police report contains allegations in this regard also in saying A-13 to A-15 are criminally liable with A-2 if not also with A- 3 to 6 bar under Section 195(1) Cr.P.C is only for taking cognizance on police final report under Section 173 Cr.P.C by Magistrate under Section 190 Cr.P.C, where forgery committed while the documents in Court custody in relation to the documents. It is to say, there is no bar for registering the Crime and investigation by police. Thus, any argument of bar under Section 19591)(b) Cr.P.C for the offence under Section 463, 466, 468 and 471 Cr.P.C so far as alleged substitution of forged colour Xerox in place of originals of Exs.A-1 and A-2 documents of O.S. No.854 of 2007 is premature, for not reached stage of taking cognizance. So far as other merits concerned it is left open to accused to raise only after police filed final report and any cognizance taken by the Magistrate.

       Having regard to the above, the petitions are disposed of for no grounds to quash the Crime No.24 of 2014 of Nagarampalem police Station, Guntur Urban, Guntur District for no bar of Section 195(1)(b) Cr.P.C so far as the offence under Section 380 I.P.C concerned in relation to Exs.A-1 and A-2 of O.S. No.354 of 2007 but for in relation to substituted colour Xerox copies of it by alleged forgery for purpose of cheating or using as genuine the so called forged documents that too the bar is for taking cognizance on police final report and not for registering crime and investigation of the Crime No.24 of 2014. Further, there is no bar under Section 195(1)(b) Cr.P.C, so far as alleged forgery of notarized un-registered will propounded by A-2 dated 15.12.2010 for offences under Section 466 and 468 read with 34 and 120-B I.P.C either for the Crime No.24 of 2014 registered or for investigation or even for taking cognizance by Magistrate on final report. It is left open to the accused to vindicate any of their grievance by filing fresh quash proceedings after police final report and cognizance taken by Magistrate, in other respects on merits if no case made out against all or any particular accused among A-1 to A-15 for any of the offences. (Paras 10 & 11)

       Result: Petition disposed of.

ORDER (COMMON)

Dr. B. Siva Sankara Rao, J.—All these Criminal Petitions are filed by Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 to 8, 11 & 13 under Section 482 Cr.P.C seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.24 of 2014 on the file of Nagarampalem Police Station, Guntur Urban, Guntur District registered for the offences punishable under Sections 120-B, 380, 466 and 468 read with 34 I.P.C., on the report of the two defacto-complainants dated 23.01.2014.

2. The main allegations, in the report presented by the 2nd respondent and his mother shown as 3rd respondent in some of the petitioners (supra) which was registered as a crime as stated supra, are that the one Kodali Lalitha Kumari (A-2) with the active collusion and conspiracy of other accused including her brother and sisters (all 15 in number) stealthily replaced the original title deeds of the property of the defacto-complainants with fake documents through their advocates which were filed as Exs.A-1 (document No.11828/1981) and A-2 (document No.380/1982) in O.S. No.854 of 2007 on the file of the I Additional Junior Civil Judge, (which they came to know after filed application for return of the Exs.A-1 and Ex.A-2), that the same property hurriedly registered to others four sale deeds attested by A-11 & A-12; with the help of a fake notarized will attested and notarized by A-13 to A-15 and by using the stolen original documents; that the accused forcibly dispossessed the respondent Nos.2 and 3 from their property by bribing the public servants belonging to registration and police departments even they obtained injunction order in I.A. No.77 of 2013 in O.S. No.8 of 2013 on the file of IV Additional Senior Civil Judge, Guntur.

3. Heard the learned counsel for respective petitioners as well as the State represented by the Public Prosecutor and also the respondent Nos.2 and 3 appeared in-person and perused the material on record. For the sake of convenience and to avoid confusion in all the four petitions, the petitioners respectively being referred as respective accused while the defacto-complainant as respondent Nos.2 and 3.

4. Undisputed facts in this regard are that A-2 is the wife of one Kodali Atchaiah Chowdary who died issueless on 15.12.2010. A-3 to A-6 are sisters and brother of A-2 and A-7 to A-10 are alleged vendees from A-2 and A-1 is the masterminds behind. The 2nd respondent is son of 3rd respondent, who is the sister of said Atchaiah Chowdary. Said Kodali Atchaiah Chowdary filed a suit in O.S. No.854 of 2007 on the file of I Additional Junior Civil Judge, Guntur against his neighbours for permanent injunction in respect of some of his property situated in Syamala Nagar, Guntur and the same was decreed on 26.10.2009. He filed therein to support his claim the Exs.A-1 and A-2 supra during the course of trial. After demise of said Atchaiah Chowdary, the 2nd respondent filed an implead petition to implead himself as his legal heir. Besides opposing the same, the wife (A-2) of said Atchaiah Chowdary filed an application to implead her as a legal representative of her deceased husband and to discharge the 2nd respondent and the same is pending for adjudication, while so, the A-2 is trying to alienate the properties, the 2nd respondent made an objection before the Sub-Registrar concerned for registration of any documents. Upon the same, the A-2 filed a writ petition in W.P.No.3312 of 2013 before this Court, in which this Court (another bench) directed the sub-Registrar to receive the documents and thereafter the A-2 alienated the property in favour of A-7 to A-10 under four registered sale deeds dated 25.02.2013.

5. The 2nd respondent herein filed a suit in O.S. No.81 of 2013 on the file of V Additional Senior Civil Judge, Guntur disputing the notarized will dated 03.06.2000 said to have been executed by the husband of the A-2-Lalitha Kumari with bequeths in her favour and also seeking to deliver possession of the subject property by impleading the purchasers (the respective accused pe

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