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2. The petitioner gets embroiled in an alleged affair with the complainant and when that is broken it becomes a Crime for offences punishable under Section 376, 420 and 406 of the IPC. This Court, in terms of its order dated 15.07.2022 NC: 2024:KHC:15952 in Crl.P.No.4799/2022 quashed the proceedings against the petitioner by observing that the complainant was in the habit of registering the cases of rape against several men one of the victim was the petitioner. The order has become final. The petitioner is now before this Court seeking a direction to the respondent - Indian Kanoon to mask the name of the petitioner in its database or its achives, as the case would be. Plethora of mails communicated by the petitioner has all gone unheeded and therefore, the petitioner is before this Court, in the subject petition.

3. The order passed by this Court on 15.07.2022 was unequivocal that it was an abuse of process of the law by the complainant, who dragged the petitioner into the web of crime.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that in Indian Kanoon, the respondent has also has policy of masking the name and has produced the said policy.

5. In the light of the policy being in place without driving the petitioner to this Court, Indian Kanoon and others NC: 2024:KHC:15952 ought to have acted upon the mails communicated, as the petitioner being an accused is effaced long ago and is entitled to live in dignity.