HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.3229 OF 2025

ORDER

On 05.03.2025 this Court ordered notice to respondent No.2 and personal notice was also permitted. In compliance with the said order, learned counsel for the petitioner has filed memo vide U.S.R.No.33815 of 2025 dated 25.03.2025 along with returned cover with an endorsement “No such person in this address”. Therefore, this Court directed the investigating officer in Crime No.280 of 2017 to serve notice on the 2^nd respondent and file proof of service. On 04.04.2025 learned Additional Public Prosecutor informed this Court that the investigating officer in the subject crime went to the residence of respondent No.2 to serve notice in compliance with the order of this Court dated 27.03.2025, but the door was locked. On enquiry, he came to know that respondent No.2 was in Pondicherry. He sought time to serve notice personally.

2. The Sub-Inspector of Police, Nizamabad Rural Police Station, has filed an affidavit stating that pursuant to the letter received from the Public Prosecutor’s Office on 27.03.2025, he made phone calls to respondent No.2 on 27.03.2025 and finally at 05:28 PM, respondent No.2 attended the phone