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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
JUVVADI SRIDEVI
Challa Sreenaiah – Appellant
Versus
State of Telangana represented by Public Prosecutor – Respondent
ORDER :
Juvvadi Sridevi, J.
This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.309 of 2022 pending on the file of the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Nakrekal, (for short ‘the learned trial Court’) registered for the offence under Section 419 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘ IPC ’).
2. Heard Sri D.V. Sitharama Murthy, learned Senior Counsel, representing Sri Aruva Karthik, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State as well as Sri V.T. Kalyan, learned counsel for the respondent No.2. Perused the record.
3(a). The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner- accused is an agent of various insurance companies, namely LIC, ReliGear, and Oriental Insurance, and is also employed as a Lecturer at Vasavi Degree College, Nakrekal. It is alleged that the petitioner-accused committed the offence of cheating by personation and used forged documents as genuine with an intention to claim the Postal Life Insurance amount of one Sri Challa Saidulu, S/o Challa Bhujangam, who had died in a road accident. After investigation, the Police filed a charge s
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