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2025 DAILYLAW 164947 (MAD)

Ananthakumar v. The State of Tamil Nadu

CRL OP(MD)/15797/2025 · 2025-09-25

Sunder Mohan

Transfer Petitionbody2025

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CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT Dated : 25/09/2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 1. Ananthakumar 2. Nagarajan 3. Jeyalakshmi 4. Pandiselvi 5. Pandeeswari 6. Duraipandi 7. Senbagamoorthi ... Petitioners Vs 1.The State of Tamil Nadu, Rep. by The Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Virudhunagar. 2.Radha ... Respondents Prayer : Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 528 of BNSS, to call for the records pertaining to the charge sheet in C.C.No.50 of 2020 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate-II, Virudhunagar and quash the same in so far as the petitioner are concerned. For Petitioners : Mr.S.Surya For R1 : Mr.K.Sanjai Gandhi Government Advocate (Crl.Side) 1/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 For R2 : Mr.A.Abdul Hameed ORDER The petitioners seek to quash the impugned charge sheet in C.C.No. 50 of 2020 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate-II, Virudhunagar, which was filed for the offences under Sections 498(A), 294(b), 506(1) of IPC and Section 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, 2002. 2. The allegation against the petitioners is that the first petitioner and the defacto complainant are husband and wife; that the petitioners harassed the defacto complainant on account of dowry demand, abused her in filthy language and threatened her of dire consequences and thus committed the aforesaid offences. 3.The learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the defacto complainant/the second respondent would submit that the parties have now entered into a compromise on the advise of the elders and well-wishers and both the parties have agreed that the impugned final report may be quashed. 4.The parties have also filed a joint compromise memo. The scanned copy of the compromise memo reads as follows: 2/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 3/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 4/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 5.The petitioners and the second respondent are present before this Court in person. They are identified by Ms.S.Maheswari, Sub Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Virudhunagar. All the parties confirmed the compromise arrived at between them. 6.Considering the nature of the offences and the fact that it is a matrimonial dispute and the parties have arrived at a compromise, this Court is of the view that no useful purpose would be served by keeping the impugned charge sheet pending trial. Accordingly, the impugned charge sheet in C.C.No. 50 of 202, on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate-II, Virudhunagar, is quashed and the Criminal Original Petition stands allowed. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petitions are closed. 25.09.2025 NCC : Yes / No Index : Yes / No Internet : Yes/ No cp 5/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 To 1.The Judicial Magistrate-II, Virudhunagar. 2. The Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Virudhunagar. 3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai. 6/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis CRL OP(MD). No.15797 of 2025 SUNDER MOHAN,J cp ORDER IN CRL OP(MD) No.15797 of 2025 Date : 25/09/2025 7/7 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis