- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21252 CRL.P No. 3905 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.3905 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. 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. 3. RAVINDRA KRISHNAPPA S/O LATE K.V.KRISHNAPPA AGED ABOUT 59 YEARS R/AT C2-702, WHITE HOUSE APARTMENT 15TH CROSS, RT NAGAR BENGALURU - 560 032. 4. SURENDRA CHIKALLI @ SURENDRA GOWDA S/O SIDDAPPA GOWDA AGED ABOUT 65 YEARS Digitally signed by GEETHA P G Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21252 CRL.P No. 3905 of 2025 R/AT HARALIMUTT HAROGULGE POST THIRTHAHALLI TALUK SHIVAMOGGA DISTRICT.- 577 415. ALSO R/AT, ALL ARE DIRECTORS OF SUVISION HOLDINGS PVT LTD. BRIGADE SOFTWARE PARK BSK 2ND STAGE BENGALURU - 560 085. …PETITIONERS (BY SRI. RAJASHEKAR S., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BY BANASHANKARI POLICE STATION REP. BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT BUILDING BENGALURU - 560 001. 2. SHAILAJA C.N. D/O NIRVANAIAH AGED ABOUT 23 YEARS R/AT NO.94, 5TH CROSS KODICHIKKANAHALLI MAIN ROAD BILEKALLI, BENGALURU - 560 076. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. NAGESHWARAPPA K., HCGP FOR R1; R2 - SERVED BUT UNREPRESENTED.) THIS CRIMINAL PETITION IS FILED UNDER SECTION 482 OF CR.P.C., PRAYING TO QUASH ALL THE FIR IN CRIME - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21252 CRL.P No. 3905 of 2025 NO.113/2023 OF BANASHANKARI P.S., PENDING ON THE FILE OF THE 4TH ACMM COURT, BENGALURU CITY, REGISTERED FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTIONS 406, 409, 420 AND 34 OF IPC., ETC. 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 them in Crime No.113/2023 by the Banashankari Police Station, Bengaluru pending on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner 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 Directors of The 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 - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21252 CRL.P No. 3905 of 2025 Injunction granted in favour of the petitioners and their Company. Subsequently, respondent No.2-complainant, who is none other than the employee of the petitioners, had resigned from the company of the petitioners 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. 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 Feedom 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, 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 proceedings based on the complaint containing vague and bald allegations without sufficient material would amount to - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:21252 CRL.P No. 3905 of 2025 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; 2) The impugned F.I.R in Crime No.113/2023, 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.: 47