IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.1349 OF 2024 DATED: 20^th FEBRUARY, 2026 Between K. Manmohan …Petitioner AND The State of Telangana represented by Public Prosecutor and one another ...Respondents

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.2 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.1493 of 2022 pending on the file of the learned Principal Junior Civil Judge-cum-Additional Metropolitan Magistrate at Rajendranagar, Ranga Reddy District (for short ‘the learned trial Court’) registered for the offences under Sections 420, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

02. Heard Sri B. Balaji, learned counsel, representing Sri Banavath Nageshwar Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent No.1 as well as Sri S. Rama Mohan Rao, learned counsel for the unofficial respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03. The brief facts of the case are that on 14.07.2021 at about 12:30 hours, the respondent No.2 lodged a complaint before the Police stating that the marriage of her daughter was