O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to quash the order passed in Crl.M.P.No.1094 of 2020 in S.C.No.42 of 2015, on the file of I Additional District and Sessions Judge at Nalgonda.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri M.Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent-State.

3. The learned Sessions Judge dismissed the petition filed by the petitioner under Section 311 of Cr.P.C. seeking to recall P.Ws.1 to 3 for the purpose of marking their statements recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C., mainly on the ground that statements recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C. are equivalent to the statements recorded under Section 161 Cr.P.C. Only for the purpose of contradictions or omissions, statements can be used. Learned Sessions Judge did not commit any error in dismissing the application. The statements under Section 164 Cr.P.C. can be marked on record only to confront to the witnesses for adducing any contradictions or omissions.

4. Accordingly, this Criminal Petition is disposed of.

Miscellaneous applications pending, if any, shall stand closed.

_________________ K.SURENDER, J