JUDGMENT

U Durga Prasad Rao, J. - In this petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., the petitioner seeks to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.1/2018 on the file of the Special Judge for Trial of cases against MPs & MLAs at Vijayawada.

2. The prosecution case briefly is that the petitioner/accused has submitted his nomination papers on 03.04.2009 as a candidate for election to the A.P. Legislative Assembly from 197-Penamaluru constituency. In the affidavits in Annexure-1 and Form 26, he has deliberately suppressed the fact that C.C.No.99/2002 and CC.No.69/2002 were pending against him on the file of the Special Judge for Economic Offences Court at Hyderabad for the offences under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973. While so, one E.A.S.Sarma, retired IAS Officer and public spirited person residing at Visakhapatnam coming to know about the alleged suppression of the information by the petitioner, made a complaint by e-mail to the Chief Election Commissioner, A.P on 26.07.2012. The Additional Chief Electoral Officer & Joint Secretary to Government of A.P. has forwarded the said complaint to the District Election Officer-cum-District Collector, Krishna on 06.08.2012. In t