ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioner, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.11415 of 2021, pending on the file of learned III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, City Criminal Courts, Nampally, Hyderabad.

2. After arguing for some time, when this Court has expressed its opinion stating that the said contentions are disputed questions of fact which need to be gone into by the trial Court, learned counsel for the petitioner restricted his prayer to the extent of dispensing with the presence of the petitioner before the trial Court.

3. Hence, without going into the merits of the Case, this Criminal Petition is disposed of holding that, if there are no warrants issued against the petitioner, his appearance before the trial Court is dispensed with unless his presence is specifically required during the course of the trial, subject to the condition that the petitioner being represented by his counsel on every date of hearing. Further, the petitioner is at liberty to agitate all the issues and grounds raised before this Court by filing a discharge application before the trial Court.

4. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of.

Pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, in this Criminal Petition shall also stand closed.

____________________ E.V. VENUGOPAL J

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