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DUPPALA VENKATA RAMANA
Sanapala Ananda Rao, S/o. Suryanarayana – Appellant
Versus
State of A. P. – Respondent
ORDER :
This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short “Cr.P.C”) by the petitioners/A.1 to A.7 seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.676 of 2012 on the file of the Court of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, registered for the offence under Sections 468 , 471 and 420 IPC, against them.
2. Heard Sri Challa Ajay Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Y.Jagadeeswara Rao, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State.
3. The brief facts of the case, as per the charge sheet, are as follows:
(i) While the 2nd respondent/de facto complainant, who was a builder, and his friend viz., L.W.2-Muddana Ranganayakulu, who was a Teacher in D.A.V.Public School, were searching to purchase a suitable land in Madhavadhara for development, through L.W.6(M.Kondalarao), they approached the 1st petitioner/A.1, who got introduced himself as a landlord and stated that there is an ancestral property to an extent of Ac.3.00 cents situated in Sy.Nos.291P, 293, 294P and 296P of Adavivaram Revenue Village, Chinagadili Mandal, Visakhapatnam and showed the said property physically to them and also showed some registered documents perta
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