BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT Reserved on : 18.12.2025 Pronounced on : 23.01.2026 CORAM:

THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE K.MURALI SHANKAR Cont.P.(MD)No.3074 of 2025 in Crl.O.P.(MD)No.22494 of 2022 D.Nithya ... Petitioner/

Petitioner Vs.

1.Kennedy Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cantonment, Tiruchirapalli.

2.Anbalagan Inspector of Police, Cantonment Police Station, Cantonment, Tiruchirapalli. ... Contemnors/

Respondents Prayer : This Contempt Petition filed under Section 11 of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, to punish the respondents for the contempt that they have committed violating the order of this Court on 20.12.2022 in Crl.O.P.

(MD)No.22494 of 2022.

For Petitioner : Mr.S.K.Mani For Contemnors : Mr.B.Thanga Aravindh, Government Advocate (Crl. Side)

ORDER

The Contempt Petition has been filed invoking Section 11 of the Contempt of Courts Act seeking orders to punish the contemnors for the contempt that they have committed violating the orders of this Court in Crl.O.P.(MD)Nos.22494 to 22496 of 2022 dated 20.12.2022.

2. The petitioner filed three petitions in Crl.O.P.(MD)Nos.22494 to

22496 of 2022 invoking Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking orders to transfer the complaint lodged by the petitioner pending before the Inspectors of Police, All Women Police Station Srirangam, All Women Police Station Cantonment and Thiruverambur Police Station to the file of an Investigating Agency, preferably, the Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) or any other Investigating Agency.

3. It is evident that there existed matrimonial dispute between the petitioner and her husband and the petitioner, alleging that her husband and her in-laws have been harassing her demanding money and attacked her brutally in her bank premises, in her matrimonial home and in her parental home, lodged complaints. On the basis of the complaints lodged by the petitioner, FIR came to be registered in Crime No.127 of 2022 on 14.04.2022 on the file of the All Women Police Station, Thiruverambur for the offences under Sections 147, 294(b), 323 and 506(1) IPC and Section 4 of TN Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act. On the basis of the complaint lodged by the petitioner's husband's brother, another FIR came to be registered in Crime No.128 of 2022 against the petitioner's father and brother on the file of the Thiruverambur Police Station for the offences under Sections 294(b), 307 and 506(2) IPC. It is not in dispute that for the incident alleged to have occurred in Punjab National Bank premises where the petitioner was working, Cantonment All Women Police Station registered a case in Crime No.9 of 2022 dated 14.06.2022 for the offences under Sections 498(A), 323, 294(b) and 506(1) IPC. According to the petitioner, she lodged a complaint with the Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Srirangam on 02.07.2022 but there was no action.

4. The petitioner, in the petitions filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., claimed that the time sequences as well as the occurrences had been continuous, but the same had taken place in three different places, within the limits of different police stations and that therefore, all the three complaints given by the petitioner ought to be investigated by CB-CID or any other investigating agency. This Court, considering the above facts and circumstances and also the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State, passed a common order dated 20.12.2022 directing the Commissioner of Police, Trichy City, in consultation with the Superintendent of Police (Rural) to appoint any Inspector of Police under his control for investigating the three cases in Crime Nos.127 and 128 of 2022 on the file of the Thiruverambur Police Station and Crime No.9 of 2022 on the file of the Cantonment All Women Police Station and the complaint pending before the All Women Police Station, Srirangam and to nominate a police officer in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police / Assistant Commissioner of Poli