ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘ Cr.P.C .’) to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/accused in CC.No.616 of 2022 on the file of the XI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, at Secunderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 499, 500, 463 , 464 and 465 of Indian Penal Code (for short ‘ IPC ’).

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner is a retired Indian Army Officer, the then Brigadier, and the respondent No.2/ de facto complainant is Brigadier in Indian Army. The respondent No.2 lodged complaint against the petitioner stating that the petitioner had been creating obstacles in his professional front with an intention to create barrier for his promotion. It was alleged by respondent No.2 that in order to create nuisance and trouble him, the petitioner had fabricated and created fake mess bill in the name of Sai Siddhartha Mess, Vasavi Nagar, Secunderabad, for a sum of Rs.41,250/- and had also forged his signatures and that he had also filed representation against the respondent No.2 before superior authorities due to which the promotion of respondent No.2 was bun