ORDER :

This Criminal Petition is filed to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.496 of 2014 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Rayachoty, YSR District.

2. The facts averred in the present Criminal Petition are that 2nd respondent/complainant in C.C.No.496 of 2014 filed complaint seeking to punish the petitioners herein for the offence punishable under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) i.e. for defamation, on the ground that they have made defamatory statement in the counter filed by 2nd petitioner herein, in I.A. No.413 of 2013 in O.S.No.45 of 2009, which is pending on the file of the Senior Civil Judge Court, Rayachoty, where suit is filed by 2nd respondent/complainant against 2nd petitioner herein, who is arrayed as 2nd defendant, and others seeking specific performance of agreement of sale. 1st petitioner herein is the counsel for 2nd petitioner herein before the court below.

It is stated that as 2nd respondent herein, who is plaintiff in the suit, could not file his affidavit in lieu of his examination-in-chief, the learned Senior Civil Judge closed the evidence on his behalf in O.S.No.45 of 2009 on 14.11.2013. Thereafter, 2nd respondent herein filed