- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:4232 CRL.P No. 17089 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 27TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2026 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 17089 OF 2025 BETWEEN: SMT. BHAGYA LAKSHMI W/O LATE BORALINGAYYA AGED ABOUT 64 YEARS NO. 1031, 7TH CROSS NEAR SHANIMAHATMA TEMPLE VIJAYANANDANAGARA, NANDINI LAYOUT BENGALURU – 560 096. …PETITIONER (BY SRI RAMESH N.K., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BY VIJAYANAGARA SUB-DIVISION KAMAKSHIPALYA PS REPRESENTED BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT BUILDING BENGGALURU – 560 001. 2. JAYA PRABHA L., W/O SHIVAKUMAR B., NO. 64, SHIVAGIRI NILAYA 7TH MAIN, BDA LAYOUT, Digitally signed by SANJEEVINI J KARISHETTY Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:4232 CRL.P No. 17089 of 2025 NEAR SAINT PAUL SCHOOL PATTEGARPALYA, BENGALURU CITY PIN CODE – 560 079. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI B.N.JAGADEESHA, ADDL.SPP FOR R-1) THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S.482 (FILED U/S.528 BNSS) CR.P.C., PRAYING TO QUASH THE FIR DATED 22.06.2020 CULMINATING IN THE CHARGE SHEET AND THE ENTIRE PROCEEDINGS PENDING AGAINST THE PETITIONER/ACCUSED NO.2 IN C.C.NO.5118/2021 PENDING BEFORE THE HON’BLE XXXIX ADDL. CJM BENGALURU CITY FOR THE OFFENCES P/U/S 498(A) OF IPC 1860, 34 AND SEC.3 AND 4 OF DP ACT 1961. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA ORAL ORDER Petitioner – accused No.2 is before this Court calling in question proceedings in C.C.No.5118/2021, pending before the XXXIX Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bengaluru City, for the offences under Sections 498A of the IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:4232 CRL.P No. 17089 of 2025 2. It is the submission that the petitioner had filed application seeking discharge, which has been rejected and the charges are framed long ago and the trial is on. 3. In the light of the submission, interference under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. at this juncture is unwarranted. Therefore, I deem it appropriate to dispose the petition with a direction to the concerned Court to dispose C.C.No.5118/2022, within an outer limit of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of the order, if not earlier, in the light of the fact that the parties to the lis have divorced in terms of settlement. 4. With the aforesaid direction, the criminal petition stands disposed. Sd/- (M.NAGAPRASANNA) JUDGE NVJ List No.: 1 Sl No.: 70