Crl.O.P.No. 18731 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 20.08.2026 CORAM: THE HONOURABLE MRS. JUSTICE S. ALLI Crl.O.P.No. 18731 of 2025 Vijayalakshmi ... Petitioner/ De-facto Complainant Versus 1.The State Represented by The Superintendent of Police Law and Order, Orleanpet, Puducherry. 2.The Inspector of Police Mudaliarpet Police Station Mudaliarpet, Puducherry. [Crime No. 79 of 2025]. ... Respondent/Complainant Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, praying to issue a direction to the first respondent to transfer the investigation in the Crime No.79 of 2025 on the file of the second respondent to some other Officer who is not a native of Puducherry, to conduct the investigation in the manner known to law and further direct to file a final report before this Court within the stipulate time. Page No.1 of 4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No. 18731 of 2025 For Petitioner : Mr.D.Padmanabhan For Respondent : Mr.M.V.Ramachandramurthi Additional Public Prosecutor, Puducherry, Assisted by Mr.M.Thamizhmani Puducherry. --- ORDER This Criminal Original Petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to the first respondent to transfer the investigation in Crime No.79 of 2025, pending on the file of the second respondent, to some other officer who is not a native of Puducherry, to conduct the investigation in the manner known to law and to further direct to file a final report before this Court within a stipulated time. 2. Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Puducherry, submitted that the final report in the case on hand has been filed by the respondent police through e-filing before the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.IV, Puducherry. 3.In view of the above submission made by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this Criminal Original Petition is dismissed as infructuous. 20.08.2026 MSM Page No.2 of 4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No. 18731 of 2025 To 1.The Judicial Magistrate No.IV, Puducherry. 2.The Superintendent of Police Law and Order, Orleanpet, Puducherry. 3.The Inspector of Police Mudaliarpet Police Station Mudaliarpet, Puducherry. [Crime No. 79 of 2025] 4.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras. Page No.3 of 4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No. 18731 of 2025 S. ALLI, J., MSM Crl.O.P.No. 18731 of 2025 20.08.2026 Page No.4 of 4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis