- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:18819 CRL.P No. 3908 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 4TH DAY OF JUNE, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.R.KRISHNA KUMAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 3908 OF 2025 (482(Cr.PC) / 528(BNSS) BETWEEN: 1. SASHI PARVATHA REDDY S/O GOPAL KRISHNA PARVATHA REDDY AGED ABOUT 59 YEARS, R/AT 1251, COUNTRY CLUB ROAD, GLADWYNE PA, U.S.A.19035 ALSO R/AT DIRECTOR, SUVISION HOLDING PVT. LTD. BRIGADE SOFTWARE PARK, BSK 2ND STAGE, BENGALURU – 560 085 2. ASHOL PAL SINGH, S/O SATYA PAL SINGH, AGED ABOUT 64 YEARS, R/AT D1-43, BLOCK-D, DDA FLATS, SECTOR-E1, VASANT KUNJ, SOUTH WEST DELHI, DELHI – 110 070 ALSO R/AT. DIRECTOR, SUVISION HOLDING PVT. LTD., BRIGADE SOFTWARE PARK, BSK 2ND STAGE, BENGALURU – 560 085, 3. RAVINDRA KRISHNAPPA S/O LATE K.V.KRISHNAPPA AGED ABOUT 57 YEARS R/AT C2702, WHITEHOUSE APARTMENT , 15TH CROSS, RT NAGAR. BENGALURU – 560 032. Digitally signed by CHANDANA B M Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:18819 CRL.P No. 3908 of 2025 ALSO R/AT DIRECTOR, SUVISION HOLDING PVT. LTD., BRIGADE SOFTWARE PARK, BSK 2ND STAGE, BENGALURU – 560 085. 4. SURENDRA CHIKALLI @ C. S. SURENDRA GOWDA S/O SIDDAPPA GOWDA. AGED ABOUT 65 YEARS, R/AT HARALIMUTT. HAROGULGE POST, THIRTHAHALLI TALUK, SHIVAMOGGA DISTRICT – 577 415 ALSO R/AT DIRECTOR, SUVISION HOLDING PVT. LTD., BRIGADE SOFTWARE PARK, BSK 2ND STAGE, BENGALURU – 560 085. …PETITIONERS (BY SRI. RAJASHEKAR S., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BANASHANKARI POLICE STATION, REPRESENTED BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT BUILDING, BENGALURU-560 001 2. MOHAMMED THOUSIF, D/O. JILAN PASHA, AGED ABOUT 20 YEARS, R/AT NO. 262, KUMBAR ROAD. BALLARI FUNCTION HALL KOWL, BAZAR, BALLARI, KARNATAKA – 583 102 …RESPONDENTS (BY SMT. SOWMYA R., HCGP FOR R1’ R2 - SERVED) THIS CRIMINAL PETITION IS FILED U/S 482 CR.PC (FILED U/S 528 BNNS) PRAYING TO QUASH THE IN FIR IN CRIME NO.112/2023 OF BANASHANKARI POLICE STATION PENDING ON THE FILE OF THE 4TH ADDITIONAL CMM COURT, BENGALURU CITY, REGISTERED FOR THE O/P/U/S 406, 409, 420 AND 34 OF IPC. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:18819 CRL.P No. 3908 of 2025 THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.R.KRISHNA KUMAR ORAL ORDER In this petition, the petitioners are seeking to quash the F.I.R registered against him in Crime No.112/2023 by the Banashankari Police Station, Bengaluru pending on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned HCGP for the respondent No.1-State and perused the material on record. 3. Respondent No.2 having been served with the notice of the petition, has chosen to remain unrepresented and has not contested the petition. 4. A perusal of the material on record will indicate that the petitioners are the Directors of the Suvision Holdings Pvt. Ltd., instituted O.S.No.919/2023 before the City Civil Judge, Bengaluru against M/s. Srishti Infotainment Pvt. Ltd. and others, in which there is an order of Temporary Injunction granted in favour of the - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:18819 CRL.P No. 3908 of 2025 petitioners and their Company. Subsequently, the respondent No.2-complainant, who is none other than the employee of the petitioner, has resigned from the company of the petitioner and filed the instant complaint alleging that the petitioners were guilty of offences punishable under Sections 406, 409, 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 5. In this context, perusal of the averments made in the complaints in the light of earlier civil dispute in O.S.No.919 of 2023 in respect of the Mobile App called "Financial Freedom App", is sufficient to come to the conclusion that the necessary ingredients constituting offences punishable as against the petitioners are not forthcoming in the complaint; on the other hand, having suffered an order of Temporary Injunction in O.S.No.919/2023, the defendants 1 and 2 in the said suit appears to have instigated the respondent No.2-complainant who is none other than the ex-employee of the petitioner in filing the instant complaint. 6. Therefore, I am of the considered opinion that the impugned proceedings based on the complaints containing vague and bald allegations without sufficient material would amount to - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:18819 CRL.P No. 3908 of 2025 abuse of process of law warranting interference by this Court in the present petitions. 7. In the result, I pass the following: O R D E R 1) Criminal Petition is allowed; 2) The impugned F.I.R in Crime No.112/2023 registered by the Banashankari Police Station, Bengaluru pending on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru insofar as the petitioners are concerned, are hereby quashed. Sd/- (S.R.KRISHNA KUMAR) JUDGE MDS List No.: 1 Sl No.: 27