ORDER :

1. The instant petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short Cr.P.C.) has been filed by the Petitioners/Accused Nos. 1 to 4, seeking quashment of proceedings against them in C.C. No. 113 of 2018 on the file of the Court of the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Addanki, for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 468, 506 and 509 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Brief facts of the case are as follows:

Petitioners herein are the accused Nos. 1 to 4, and respondent No. 2 herein is the defacto-complainant. Respondent No. 2 along with other farmers used to borrow fertilizers from the shop of petitioner No. 4 and there were money transactions between respondent No. 2 and petitioner No. 4 with regard to fertilizers. In that connection, respondent No. 2-defacto complainant executed a promissory note in the name of the brother-in-law of petitioner No. 4 i.e. petitioner No. 1 in the presence of petitioners 2 and 3. While things stood thus, on 25.04.2016, respondent No. 2 received a legal notice from petitioner No. 1 alleging that respondent No. 2 borrowed an amount of Rs.5,00,000/- from him on 27.04.2015 by