ORDER Both these criminal petitions are filed by the petitioners to quash Crime No, 21 of 200S on the file of Markapur Rural Police Station registered against them for the offence under Section 306 IPC, 2. It is the case of the petitioners that one B, Ananta Satyanarayana Rao, who was working as Assistant Secretary of Markapur Gram Panchayat, committed suicide on 28-3200S and a letter was found in the pocket of the deceased which contains the allegation that the petitioner in CrI.P,No, 2306 of 200S (Accused No, 1) had been harassing him by getting petitions filed against him and as such, he lost his mental peace and in furtherance of that he committed suicide, 3. The petitioner in Crl. p, No, 2306 of 200S is a practicing advocate at Markapur appearing in a number of civil and criminal cases, He issued several legal notices to the deceased for his alleged illegal acts and at the instance of a retired teacher, who was alleged to have been cheated by the deceased, the petitioner filed a private complaint in C,C,No, 1300f2004 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate's Court, Markapur, against the deceased for the offence under Section 420 IPC and the same is pending, On behalf of one Smt. Ch. Satyavathi and others, the petitioner also filed E.P.No, S7 of 2001 on the file of the Senior Civil Judge, Markapur, against the deceased for arrest for realization of money decree, 4. The petitioner in Crl. p, No, 2394 of 200S (Accused No, 2) is alleged to have been supporter of the accused No, 1 in the above said crime, In the affidavit, filed in support of the petition, the petitioner states that private complaint was lodged by the brother-in-Iaw of the deceased against him and it does not contain any allegations against him. 5. In view of the above accusations, the petitioners moved this Court by way of present criminal petitions to quash the crime registered against them contending that by any stretch of imagination, it cannot be presumed that the petitioners have committed any willful act or omission or intentionally aided or instigated the deceased in committing the act of suicide and registering the crime is as an abuse of process of law, 6.
Learned Counsel for the petitioners contends that a reading of the suicide note discloses that no specific act was alleged against the petitioners which resulted in the deceased committing suicide except an omnibus allegation that Accused No, 1 appeared for various parties and harassed the deceased in collusion with Accused No, 2, 7. However, the fact remains that the deceased was suspended from the post of the Assistant Secretary of Markapur Gram Panchayat for his alleged involvement in misappropriation of various funds of the Gram Panchayat in which a notice was issued by the Revenue Divisional Officer and a retired teacher on whose behalf the petitioner filed the private complaint also made a representation to the Chief Minister marking copies to various authorities for taking necessary action against the deceased for his illegal action wherein, inter alia, it is alleged that the deceased swallowed a cheque amount of Rs, 80,000/- payable to one Anasuyamma, These sets of events clearly indicate that the deceased was upset over the action initiated against him, In the suicide note except stating that Accused No, 1 filed cases and harassed him no other specific incidence or willful act was pointed out due to which he committed suicide, Further, in the suicide note, the deceased stated that .