IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.3098 OF 2024 DATE : 11.03.2026 Between:

Chethireddy Venkatram Reddy …Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana, at Hyderabad and another …Respondents :ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, “Cr.P.C.”), seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C. No. 216 of 2023, pending on the file of the learned Principal Judicial First Class Magistrate, Godavarikhani.

2. The petitioner is the sole accused in the aforesaid calendar case, which has been registered for the offences punishable under Sections

417 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, “IPC”).

3. Heard Mr. J. Naresh Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. M. Vivekananda Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1–State, as well as the learned counsel appearing for respondent No.2/de facto complainant.

4.1. The factual matrix, in brief, is that respondent No.2 lodged a complaint dated 13.10.2022 alleging that, in the