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K. SURENDER
Kannoju Swaroopa – Appellant
Versus
State of Telangana – Respondent
ORDER :
This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioner-Respondent No.2 to quash the proceedings against her in DVC No.28 of 2022 on the file of Prl.Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Husnabad. The offence alleged against them is under Section 12 of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (for short ‘Act, 2005’).
2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent – State. Perused the record.
3. Though the petitioner has raised several grounds to quash the proceedings in the aforesaid DVC, learned counsel for the petitioner requested this Court to dispense with the appearance of the petitioner, in the aforesaid DVC case before the trial Court.
4. Keeping in view that the petitioner is aged about 56 years, this Criminal Petition is disposed off with the following directions:
ii) The attendance of the petitioner is dispensed subject to filing
A petition to quash proceedings in a Domestic Violence Case is not maintainable when an alternative remedy exists under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
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