HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA *****

CRIMINAL PETITION No.12894 of 2023 Between:

Nandyala Narendar Reddy ... Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court, Hyderabad and another ...Respondents DATE OF ORDER: 1^st August, 2025 SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL:

THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI

1 Whether Reporters of Local newspapers may be allowed to Yes/No see the Judgment?

2 Whether the copies of judgment may be marked to Law Yes/No Reporters/Journals

3 Whether HER Lordship wish to see the fair copy of the Yes/No Judgment?

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JUVVADI SRIDEVI, J * THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI + Criminal Petition No.12894 of 2023 % Date: 1^st August, 2025 Between:

Nandyala Narendar Reddy ... Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court, Hyderabad and another ...Respondents ! Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri L.Harish ! Assistant Public Prosecutor for the Respondent No.1-State: Smt.S.Madhavi ! Counsel for the Respondent No.2: Sri D.V.Seetharam Murthy, learned Senior Counsel representing Sri Mamidi Avinash Reddy >HEAD NOTE:

? Cases referred

1. (2024) 1 Supreme Court Cases 417 2. (2019) 3 Supreme Court Cases 315 3. (2008) 2 Supreme Court Cases 403

4. 2025 INSC 402

5. 1992 SCC (SUPP) 1 335 THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.12894 OF 2023

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused seeking to quash the proceedings against him in P.R.C.No.38 of 2023 on the file of the learned IV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate-cum-IV Additional Junior Civil Judge at LB Nagar, Rangareddy District, registered for the offences under Sections 306 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

02. Heard Sri L.Harish, learned counsel for the petitioner-accused; Smt.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1 as well as Sri D.V.Seetharam Murthy, learned Senior Counsel representing Sri Mamidi Avinash Reddy, learned counsel for unofficial respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03(a). The brief facts of the prosecution case are as follows: For the past 7 to 8 years, Sri B. Lakshmana Rao (hereinafter referred to as ‘the deceased’) was engaged in the construction business in collaboration with the petitioner- accused at various locations including Chitraseema, Mansoorabad, Hayathnagar, and surrounding areas. The petitioner-accused used to purchase land, and the deceased undertook the construction of residential flats thereon. In the year 2020, the petitioner-accused acquired a land admeasuring 886.32 square yards at Shanthi Nagar, Kalvancha Village, Hayathnagar Mandal, where the deceased constructed 20 residential flats under the name “Sri Sai Meadows Constructions.”

03(b). Similarly, during October and November 2020, the petitioner-accused procured another land admeasuring 400 square yards at Agriculture Colony, Kharmanghat, where the deceased constructed 10 residential flats, pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) entered into between them. The deceased had completed approximately 80% of the construction but was facing severe financial difficulties in completing the remaining work. He approached the petitioner-accused, stating that the financiers were demanding repayment of their loans and, as a solution, proposed to register his share of the flats in the names of those borrowers. The petitioner-accused, however, insisted that the original MoU be handed over to him before proceeding, and the deceased, placing trust in him, handed over the original document. Despite repeated requests by the deceased to register the flats in favour of the borrowers, the petitioner-accused failed to comply.

03(c). In May 2022, the deceased expressed to his son i.e. complainant that he was under extreme mental distress due to pressure from financiers and as the petitioner- accused failed to register the agreed flats. On 26.06.2022 at around 1800 hours, the complainant, who was then at IICA, Gurugram, received a call