THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO + CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.5377 of 2015 and 1317 of 2019 % Dated 16.10.2025 Crl.P.No.5377 of 2015 # Smt.Vijaya Lakshmi @ Rambha, W/o. Indrakumar Pathmanathan, Aged 36 years, Occ: Actress, R/o/ 27, River Forest Drive, Markham, Ontario-L3S4H4, Canada, Rep by her SPA Holder Srinivas ….Petitioner VERSUS $ The State of Telangana, Through S.H.O. Jangaon Police Station, Warangal Commissionerate, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court, Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents Crl.P.No.1317 of 2019 # Yeedi Srinivas Venkateshwar Rao @ Vasu, Aged about 44 years, Occ: Business, R/o. 21, River View Apartments, Flat No.5, Gandhi Nagar, 4th Main Road, Adayr, Chennai, Now residing at No.44/1, Navanithamal Street, Saligramam, Chennai-93.

….Petitioner VERSUS $ The State of Telangana, Through S.H.O. Jangaon Police Station, Warangal Commissionerate, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court, Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents ! Counsel for Petitioners : Mr.C.Damodar Reddy ^ Counsel for Respondent No.1 : Mr. M.Vivekananda Reddy, Asst.P.P.

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> HEAD NOTE:

? CITATIONS:

1. Crl.A.No.741 of 2009, dt.10.12.2014

2. Crl.A.No.1802-1803/2013, dt.30.07.2025

3. (2025) 3 SCC 735

4. Crl.No.1684/2024, dt.19.03.2024

5. SLP (Crl.) No.9178/2018, dt.01.04.2024

6. (2022) 13 SCC 635 THE HON’BLE S RI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO I.A.Nos.2 and 3 of 2019 in CRIMINAL PETITION No.1317 of 2019 and/in CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.5377 of 2015 and 1317 of 2019

COMMON ORDER:

These Criminal Petitions have been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioners, seeking to quash proceedings in C.C.No.313 of 2024 on the file of the learned XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad, wherein, the petitioners were arrayed as accused Nos.1 and 2 for the offences punishable under Sections 498(A), 406 and 506 r/w Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Sections 4 and 6 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and Section

156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

2. Heard Sri Umakanth Reddy, learned counsel representing Sri C.Damodar Reddy, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and Sri M.Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1.

3. There is no representation on behalf of the respondent No.2 either in physical mode or virtual mode.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner in Crl.P.No.1317 of 2019 and respondent No.2 are husband and wife, and their marriage was solemnized on 07.03.1999. Subsequently, matrimonial disputes arose between the parties, and respondent No.2 left the matrimonial home. On 18.07.2014, respondent No.2 lodged a complaint against the petitioners and others, based on which Crime No.784 of 2014 was registered. The Investigating Officer, without properly conducting the investigation, filed the final report before the XIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, and the said Court has taken cognizance and the case was numbered as C.C.No.313 of 2014. Subsequent to lodging the said complaint, respondent No.2 also filed O.P.No.308 of 2014 under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, seeking divorce from accused No.1.

5. Learned counsel further submitted that during the pendency of these two criminal petitions and O.P.No.308 of 2014, at the instance of elders and well-wishers, accused No.1 and respondent No.2/de-facto complainant entered into a Memorandum of Family Compromise (hereinafter referred to as ‘MOFC’) on 19.03.2018. Pursuant to the said MOFC, both parties filed an application, i.e., I.A.No.400 of 2018 in O.P.No.308 of 2014, seeking conversion of the petition under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act into Section 13-B of the Act, for dissolution of their marriage by mutual consent. The said application was allowed on 07.04.2018, and the learned Additional Family Court, Hyderabad, accordingly allowed the O.P. and granted a decree of divorce between the parties on the same date. Ther