IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.322 of 2022 DATE: 10.02.2026 BETWEEN:

Acthutuni Balaji and two others …..Petitioners/A.1 to A.3 And The Station House Officer, WCO Team – II City Crime Station Police Station, D.D. Hyderabad, Rep. by Public Prosecutor and another …..Respondents : ORDER :

This Criminal Revision case is filed by the petitioners aggrieved by the order dated 25.03.2022 passed in Crl.M.P.No.203 of 2019 in C.C.No.12 of 2018 by the learned Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the prosecution alleged that the petitioners, who were directors and management of Deepika Chit Fund Private Limited, had collected huge amounts from the de facto complainant and several other subscribers by way of chits and fixed deposits, but failed to repay the same. It was stated that the petitioners had lured innocent subscribers, collected money, and dishonestly misappropriated it, thereby committed offences punishable under Sections 406 and 420 read with 34 IPC and Section 5 of the Telangana Protection of Depositors and Financial Establishment Act, 1999 (for short ‘De