IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J SREENIVAS RAO
INDUR JAGADEESH – Appellant
Versus
THE STATE OF TELANGANA – Respondent
THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.1123 of 2023
ORDER
This Criminal Petition has been filed under Section
482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioner/accused seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR No.07/RCA-ACB-NZB/2022 of ACB Police Station, Nizamabad Range, registered for the offence under Section 13(1)(b) r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) (hereinafter referred to as, ‘the Act’).
2. Brief facts of the case:
2.1 The case of the prosecution is that, consequent to the case registered against the petitioner vide Crime No. 5/RCO/ACB-NZB/2020, for the offences under Sections 7(a), 7(c) and 12 of the Act, and Sections 417 and 120-B read with 34 of IPC, searches were conducted on 25.11.2020 at the residence of the petitioner and two other accused and certain other locations, including Locker No.7 at Axis Bank, Kanteshwar Branch, Nizamabad, jointly held by the petitioner and his wife, wherein it is found that the petitioner is in possession of huge net cash of Rs.34,40,200/- apart from gold and silver, for which he could not account satisfactorily.
2.2 It is further case of the prosecuti
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