THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.12634 of 2024

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.5 seeking to quash the criminal proceedings against him in C.C.No.2140 of 2023 on the file of the learned II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally, Hyderabad. The offence alleged against the petitioner is under Section 411 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

02. Heard Sri S.Ganesh, learned counsel representing Sri B.Krishna Karthik, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri M.Ramchandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1. No representation on behalf of the respondent No.2. Perused the material available on record.

03. The brief facts of the prosecution case are that the accused No.1, the brother of the respondent No.2 and a native of Rajasthan State, was addicted to vices such as smoking and consuming ganja and, for his lavish expenses, indulged in property offences. In 2018, after his release from jail, he came to Hyderabad on the directions of his parents and started residing with the respondent No.2, working as a Salesman in his cloth shop without being paid any salary. Du