THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.10231 of 2024

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.3424 of 2022 on the file of the III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, for the offences under Sections 417, 420 of Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Heard M/s. K.Sai Babu, learned counsel for the petitioner-accused and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. There is no representation on behalf of respondent No.2. Perused the record.

3. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is that the respondent No.2 got married to a person and having 2 children. In 2015, she got separated from her husband without divorce and started living alone at Manikonda and surviving by working as a beautician. While so, the accused person got acquaintance with the respondent No.2 and exchanged phone numbers and were in live in relationship, promising that he will marry her and when asked to fulfill the promise made by him he denied to marry and stopped responding to calls made by the respondent No.2. Respondent No.2 filed a complaint against the peti