IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.5843 OF 2025 DATE: 29-12-2025 Between:

M/s. JM Financial Services Limited … Petitioner And The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Telangana at Hyderabad and another ... Respondents

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.4 seeking to quash the proceedings against it in S.T.C.(N.I.).No.41 of 2023 on the file of learned I Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-XII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Medchal-Malkajgiri District at Kukatpally, registered for the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for short, ‘the N.I. Act’).

2. Heard Sri J. Kumaresan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1-State.

3. In spite of service of notice, none appears for respondent No.2.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner herein is accused No.4; that it has not issued any cheque in favour of respondent No.2-complainant; that even according to the contents of the complaint, no allegations are le