This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners under section 482 of Cr.P.C., to quash the proceedings in C.C. No. 1851 of 2010, on the file of the XVII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, at Nampally, Hyderabad.

2. The contention of the petitioners/accused is that the petitioners Company paid rents and also maintenance till August, 2009. Thereafter, due to slack in business, rents could not be paid and on several occasions petitioners company requested the respondent/complainant to permit them to pay dues in installments. But the complainant threatened the accused company that they will stop supplying electricity/water and other services, if the dues with regard to payment of rents and maintenance are not cleared immediately. Having no other option, Sri Dheeraj Doulat Keswani, one of the Directors of accused company, who negotiated with the complainant, was forced to hand over post dated blank cheques (personal cheques) to the complainant under security. In spite of receiving post dated personal cheques and contrary to the oral understanding arrived between the complainant and Dheeraj Doulat Keswani, without any prior notice, respondent/ complainant stopped supplyin