- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:47016 CRL.P No. 4297 of 2022 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 17TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.I.ARUN CRIMINAL PETITION NO.4297 OF 2022 (482 (Cr.PC)/528(BNSS)) BETWEEN: 1. SRI. Y.N. SATYANARAYANA S/O CHIKKANARAYANAPPA AGED ABOUT 44 YEARS OCCUPATION: CHIEF OFFICER, MUNICIPAL OFFICE, SRINIVASAPUR KOLAR DISTRICT-563 135 AND ALSO R/AT: NANDAGOKULA BEHIND SYNDICATE BANK WARD NO.19 RAMAKRISHNA ESTATE SRINIVASAPURA TALUK, KOLAR DISTRICT-563 135. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. R.V. ANAND, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BY SRINIVASAPURA POLICE STATION, KOLAR DISTRICT Digitally signed by GEETHA P G Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:47016 CRL.P No. 4297 of 2022 REP. BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, ATTACHED TO HIGH COURT BUILDING BENGALURU. 2. MR. MUNIRAYANNA R S/O LATE RAMAPPA AGED ABOUT 60 YEARS, R/AT SUGATURU VILLAGE, KOLAR TALUK, KOLAR DISTRICT-563 135. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. VINAY MAHADEVAIAH, HCGP., FOR R.1; SRI K. VISHWANATHA, ADVOCATE FOR R.2.) THIS CRIMINAL PETITION IS FILED UNDER SECTION 482 OF THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, PRAYING TO QUASH THE ANNEXURES-'A' AND 'B', THE FIR IN CRIME NO.90/2022, FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTIONS 504, 506 OF IPC AND SECTIONS 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s) OF SC & ST (PREVENTION OF ATROCITIES) AMENDED ACT 2015, OF SRINIVASAPURA POLICE STATION, KOLAR DISTRICT, PENDING ON THE FILE OF II ADDITIONAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE, KOLAR, IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION THROUGH PHYSICAL HEARING/VIDEO CONFERENCING, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.I.ARUN - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:47016 CRL.P No. 4297 of 2022 ORAL ORDER 1. The petitioner is Chief Officer in the Health Department of the State of Karnataka. The son of the complainant/respondent No.2 is working as a Health Officer in the same Department. The petitioner is a superior officer to the son of the second respondent. It is seen from the records that the petitioner had initiated disciplinary proceedings against the son of the second respondent - complainant. Subsequently, thereafter, the second respondent - complainant lodged a complaint with the first respondent that the petitioner is harassing his son and an FIR has been registered against the petitioner under Sections 504 and 506 of the IPC, 1860 and Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015. 2. The case of the petitioner is that the complaint has been lodged because the petitioner initiated action against - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:47016 CRL.P No. 4297 of 2022 the son of the second respondent, who was not working properly. 3. The records reveal that the petitioner had issued notices and also recommended to the higher authorities to take action against the son of the second respondent - complainant for not working properly. 4. Under the circumstances, the complaint against the petitioner has to be construed as a reaction to the disciplinary action initiated by the petitioner against the son of the second respondent. 5. It is obvious that a complaint has been lodged only with an intention to harass the petitioner. 6. For the aforementioned reasons, the petition is allowed. The FIR registered in Crime No.90/2022 pending on the file of the II Additional District and Sessions Judge, Kolar, stands quashed. - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:47016 CRL.P No. 4297 of 2022 7. Pending interlocutory applications, if any, stand disposed of. SD/- (M.I.ARUN) JUDGE VMB List No.: 1 Sl No.: 25