1. This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code (for short “Cr.P.C.”) to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.27 of 2017 on the file of Special Protection and Enforcement and A.C.B. Judge, Vijayawada Krishna District, for the offences punishable under Sections 420 and 506 of Indian Penal Code (for short “I.P.C.”) and under Section 9 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 as the prosecution is illegal, arbitrary and abuse of process of law.

2. The petitioners are the accused in the above C.C.No.27 of 2017 pending before the A.C.B. Court, Vijayawada registered on the basis of complaint lodged by defacto complainant–P.Suryaprakash Reddy alleging that he developed acquaintance with the petitioner No.1, who in turn induced the complainant to part with amount for securing employment, as he had connections with several IAS and IPS officers working in Central and State Government Services, who are his batch mates during the course of civil services at Delhi, believing the words of the petitioner No.1, complainant along with L.W.2 – M. Kondala Rao and L.W.4 – Y. Venkateswarlu went to the house of the petitioner No.1 and the petitioner No.1 induced them to