THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.5121 OF 2024

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 and 2 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.13362 of 2020 on the file of the learned III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 354, 420, 506 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

02. Heard Sri Rajagopallavan Tayi, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Even after service of notice, none appeared on behalf of the unofficial respondent No.2. Perused the material on record.

03(a). The case of the prosecution, in brief, is that the petitioners-accused Nos.1 and 2, who are builders residing in the same apartment as respondent No.2 and her mother at Friends’ Colony, represented to them that they were constructing a new apartment at Road No.10, Banjara Hills, and offered to sell flats therein. Believing their words, the respondent No.2 purchased two flats in the name of her mother by paying an advance of Rs.10,00,000/- and agreeing to pay Rs.56,00,000/- for each