THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.14859 of 2024

O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (previously Section 482 of Cr.P.C.) by the petitioner-accused No.1 seeking to quash the proceedings against her in C.C.No.2109 of 2018 pending on the file of the learned VIII Metropolitan Magistrate, Rajendra Nagar at Ranga Reddy District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 386, 420 and 506 of IPC.

2. Heard Mr. Sanisetty Venkateswarlu, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1-State. Notice sent to respondent No.2-de facto complainant was returned with an endorsement ‘unclaimed’. Unclaimed notice is deemed to be proper service of notice.

Perused the record.

3. The facts of the case, in brief, are that the de facto complainant is the Managing Partner of M/s. Linga Jyothi Associates, a partnership firm having its office at H.No.1-5-5, Musheerabad, Hyderabad. In July, 2010, the de facto complainant approached the accused for a lease of open plot admeasuring Ac.4.03 gts. in Sy.Nos.399 and 400 situated