THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 14115 OF 2024

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’), seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C. No. 809 of 2018 pending on the file of the learned XIX Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Secunderabad.

2. The petitioner is arrayed as accused No.5 in the Calendar Case registered for the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter ‘NI Act’).

3. I have heard Ms. T.Dhana Lakshmi, learned counsel, representing Mr.A.Chandra Shaker, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing respondent No.1-State.

4. The complainant's case, in brief, is that the disputed cheque bearing No. 002230, dated 01.10.2012, drawn on ICICI Bank, Secunderabad, in the amount of Rs.10,00,00,000/- (Rupees Ten Crores only), was issued along with another cheque bearing No. 001236, also dated 01.10.2012, for Rs.9,24,658/-, by accused No. 1. The allegation against the petitioner, who is arrayed as accused No. 5, is that he was a member of the B