THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.10658 OF 2022

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.4 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.5047 of 2022 pending on the file of learned III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad, registered for the offence under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

02. Heard Sri K.Venumadhav, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri N.Naveen Kumar, learned counsel for the unofficial respondent No.2 as well as Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. Perused the record.

03. Brief facts of the case are that there was an understanding between the accused No.3 and the complainant in respect of sale of Flat No.F2, First Floor, B-5, Road No.2, Phase-I, Film Nagar, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. In pursuant to the said understanding, the complainant paid an amount of Rs.35,00,000/- to the accused No.3 towards advance sale consideration. The agreed total sale consideration was Rs.50,00,000/-. Thereafter, the possession of the above said property was delivered in favour of the complainant in the month of March, 2007. The accu