THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL PETITION No.10449 OF 2023

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘the Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioner/accused No.3 to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.2483 of 2022, pending on the file of learned II Additional Junior Civil Judge-Cum-X Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Medchal at Athivelli, for offences punishable under Sections 406, 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the IPC’).

2. The case of the prosecution is that de-facto complainant/respondent No.2 lodged a complaint on 18.10.2022 against the petitioner/accused No.3 and other accused persons stating that in the month of October, 2020 he came to know through a mediator namely Ravi Kumar that one school by name ‘Kothwal School’ is for sale. Thereafter, accused No.2 who is the treasurer of the school came to the office of the mediator Ravi Kumar and offered to sell the school for a consideration of Rs.1,45,00,000/- for which the de-facto complainant agreed and gave an advance of Rs.1,00,000/-. It is further stated in the complaint that on 12.10.2020, the de-facto complainant gave a sum of