ORDER

Heard Kum.Yuktha, advocate for Smt.Vandana P.L., learned counsel for the revision petitioner and Sri Vinay Mahadevaiah, learned High Court Government Pleader for respondent No.1.

2. Revision Petition is filed challenging the Order dated 20.09.2023 passed in S.C.No.12/2023 on the file of the II Addl. District and Sessions Judge, Shivamogga, rejecting the application filed by the accused/revision petitioner under Section 227 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

3. Facts in brief unfold as under:

Accused has been charge sheeted along with Dinesh Kumar for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 498A r/w Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Column 17 of the Charge sheet would reveal that, one Sri Ranganath, S/o Eshwarappa, lodged a complaint alleging that his sister Manjula was married to accused No.1-Dinesh Kumar and she was living with accused No.1 and in the marital life, they have two daughters viz., Khushi and Manvitha. They were residing in a house at Priyanka Layout of Vidyanagara, Shivamogga.

4. It is also contended that accused No.1 was working in MESCOM and in his office, he developed illicit relationship with the present revision petitioner which was initially a love