ORDER :

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioner/accused to quash the order dated 12.04.2021 passed in Crl.M.P.No.186 of 2021 in Cr.No.698 of 2020 on the file of VII Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-VII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, L.B.Nagar, at Hyderabad. The petitioner is accused in the above said crime.

2. Heard Sri S.Niranjan Reddy, learned Senior Counsel representing Sri N.Naveen Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Public Prosecutor and perused the record. Despite service, none appears for the 2nd respondent/defacto-complainant.

3. FACTS OF THE CASE

i) On the complaint dated 23.12.2020 lodged by 2nd respondent the Police, Cyber Crime Police, Station, has registered a crime vide Cr.No.698 of 2020 for the offences under Sections 417,419, 420 IPC and Sections 66-C and D of the Information Technology Act, 2008 (for short, ‘the Act’).

ii) The account of the petitioner company was frozen by the Investigating Officer in the present crime.

iii) The petitioner company has filed a petition under Sections 451 and 457 of Cr.P.C. vide Crl.M.P.No.186 of 2021 in Cr.No.698 of 2020 befo