- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21250 CRL.P No. 3980 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 18TH DAY OF JUNE, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.R.KRISHNA KUMAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO.3980 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 RAT 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. Digitally signed by GEETHA P G Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21250 CRL.P No. 3980 of 2025 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. ALSO RESIDING AT DIRECTOR, SUVISION HOLDING PVT LTD. BRIGADE SOFTWARE PARK BSK 2ND STAGE, BENGALURU-560 085. 4. SURENDRA CHIKALLI 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) - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21250 CRL.P No. 3980 of 2025 AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BANASHANKARI POLICE STATION REP. BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT BUILDING BENGALURU - 560 001. 2. ARCHANA B.G., D/O MR.GANESH B.T. AGED 30 YEARS R/AT NO.107, VALAGUNDA DODDAMOLATHE HANKODU SOMAVARA PETE, KODAGU - 571 236. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. NAGESHWARAPPA K., HCGP FOR R.1; R.2: SERVED BUT UNREPRESENTED.) THIS CRIMINAL PETITION IS FILED UNDER SECTION 482 OF CR.P.C., PRAYING TO QUASH FIR IN CRIME NO.114/2023 OF BANASHANKARI POLICE STATION PENDING ON THE FILE OF THE 4TH ADDITIONAL CMM COURT, BENGALURU CITY, REGISTERED FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTIONS 406, 409, 420 AND 34 OF IPC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.R.KRISHNA KUMAR - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21250 CRL.P No. 3980 of 2025 ORAL ORDER In this petition, the petitioners are seeking to quash the F.I.R registered against them in Crime No.114/2023 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 respondent No.1. Respondent 2 has been served with notice but has chosen to remain unrepresented, and perused the material on record. 3. A perusal of the material on record will indicate that the petitioners are the Directors of Suvision Holdings Pvt. Ltd., and its Managing Director instituted Original Suit No.919 of 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 petitioners and their Company. Subsequently, respondent No.2-complainant, who is none other than the employee of the petitioner, had resigned from the company of the petitioners and filed the instant complaints alleging that the petitioners were guilty of offences punishable under - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21250 CRL.P No. 3980 of 2025 Sections 406, 409, 420 and Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. In this context, perusal of the averments made in the complaint in the light of earlier civil dispute in Original Suit 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 Original Suit No.919 of 2023, the defendants 1 and 2 in the said suit appears to have instigated respondent No.2-complainant who is none other than the ex- employee of the petitioners in filing the instant complaint. Therefore, I am of the considered opinion that the impugned proceeding based on the complaint containing vague and bald allegations without sufficient material would amount to abuse of process of law warranting interference by this Court in the present petition. 4. In the result, I pass the following: O R D E R 1) Criminal Petition is allowed; - 6 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21250 CRL.P No. 3980 of 2025 2) The impugned F.I.R in Crime No.114/2023 registered by the Banashankari Police Station, Bengaluru against the petitioners pending on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru are hereby quashed. Sd/- (S.R.KRISHNA KUMAR) JUDGE PGG List No.: 1 Sl No.: 49