THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.16228 of 2024

ORAL ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C.No.1716 of 2024 on the file of the learned II Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Malkajgiri, Medchal-Malkajgiri District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’).

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 06.07.2024 respondent No.2/de facto complainant lodged a report against the petitioner before the Police stating that he had entered into an agreement with the petitioner for the purchase of two parcels of land, one measuring Ac.43.600 square yards situated near the Railway Station, Raichur, and another measuring Ac.120 located at Matumarri Village, Raichur. As part of his business, the complainant had subsequently sold the said land parcels to various purchasers and handed over all the sale proceeds to the petitioner. However, despite repeated requests, the petitioner failed to return the original land documents and kept postponing the matter on one pretext or another. The complainant made several attempts to contact him, but th