ORAL ORDER

Petitioners/accused Nos.5 and 6 respectively in Crime No.157/2020 of Yelahanka Police Station, pending in C.C. No.15904/2020 on the file of XXXVII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Bengaluru, have preferred this petition seeking quashing of the entire proceedings.

2. FIR was registered against accused Nos.1 to 8 for offences punishable under Sections 447, 143, 147, 504, 506 r/w Section 149 IPC.

3. Charge sheet is filed against accused Nos.1 to 6 for the offence punishable under Section 504 , 506 R/w Section 34 of IPC.

4. Learned counsel for petitioners has submitted that accused Nos.1 to 4 in the very same crime preferred W.P. No.2581/2024 before this Court and the said petition was allowed, vide common order dated 28.01.2025 and the impugned proceedings against the said accused are quashed.

5. A copy of the order dated 28.01.2025 passed in W.P No.2582/2024 and connected matters is produced.

6. Para Nos. 3 and 4 of the said order are extracted here under:-

3. A perusal of the material on record would indicate that the dispute between the parties is essentially predominantly and overwhelmingly of a civil nature/character and was the subject matter of W.P.No. 1671/20