THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.10978 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 3 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.163 of 2025 on the file of learned Judicial Metropolitan Magistrate, Chevella, Ranga Reddy District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2) and 318(4) read with

3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNS’).

2. Heard Sri Lingala Sudheer, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners have neither cheated nor committed any criminal breach of trust as alleged. None of the ingredients in the complaint attract the offences alleged against the petitioners herein. He further submitted that the dispute is purely of civil in nature. In case, the allegations of the de facto complainant are true and the petitioners have received the advance sale consideration and failed to register the land in the name of the de facto complainant, then a Suit for specific performance has to be filed before the co