THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO + CRIMINAL PETITION No.5672 OF 2022 % Dated 18.11.2025 # Karinki Krishna Kanth S/o.K. Nageshwara Rao Aged: about 40 years, Occ: Business, R/o.Flat No.312, Teja Block, My Home Navadeep Apartments, Madhapur, Hyderabad.

….Petitioner4 VERSUS $ State of Telangana, Represented by its Public Prosecutor High Court, Telangana and another … Respondents ! Counsel for Petitioner : Mr.G. Veera Babu ^ Counsel for Respondents : Mr. G. Vasantha Rayudu (R.2)

Mr. M. Vivekananda Reddy Assistant Public Prosecutor (R.1)

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> HEAD NOTE:

? CITATIONS:

1. 2024 SCC OnLine SC 339 2. 2025 SCC OnLine SC 998

3. 2025 SCC OnLine SC 1643

4. (2000) 2 SCC 636 5. (2012) 7 SCC 621

6. 2022 SCC OnLine SC 1010 7. 2021 SCC OnLine SC 1002

8. (2019) 14 SCC 350 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 5672 of 2022

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, by the petitioner/accused No.1 seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.11868 of 2021 on the file of the XII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, for the offence under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the I