THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.7327 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed to quash the order dated

01.04.2025 passed in Criminal Revision Petition No.07 of 2024 by the learned VIII Additional District & Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar (for short “revisional Court”), confirming the order dated 03.11.2023 in Crl.M.P.No.427 of 2023 in STC NI No.542 of 2021 by the learned Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Special (Mobile) PCR Act – cum – IV Additional Junior Civil Judge – cum – IV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar (for short ‘the trial Court’).

2. Heard the submissions of Sri P.Vinod Lal, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri S.Someshwar Rao, learned counsel for respondent No.1 and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.2 – State.

3. The learned petitioner counsel has submitted that the interim compensation under Section 143A of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for short “NI Act”) is a discretionary relief and that the learned Judge has not assigned any reasons while granting interim compensation in this case. He further argued that the guidel