THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.5250 and 5332 of 2020

COMMON ORDER:

Criminal Petition No.5250 of 2020 is filed by petitioners/A1 and A2, and Criminal Petition No.5332 of 2020 is filed by petitioners/A5 to A10, to quash the proceedings in CC.No.3138 of 2019 on the file of XVII of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally, Hyderabad, for the offences under Sections

406, 420, 468, and 471 r/w.34 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. It is stated by both the Counsel that Petitioner No.4 in Crl.P.No.5332 of 2020, who was arrayed as Accused No.8, has died. 3. Briefly, the case of the 2^nd respondent/defacto complainant is that Accused Nos.1 and 4 have induced him and offered to sell four properties, i.e., i) Plot No.134, Road No.10, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad;

ii) Plot No.74, Journalist Colony, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad;

iii) Plot No.73, Nava Nirman Colony, Road No.71, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad; and iv) Plot No.68, Journalist Colony, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

It was represented by Accused Nos.1 and 4 that they were high ranking officials in the State Government. Further, the original documents of the properties were lying in the concerned Department for regulariza