IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.4570 OF 2025 DATE : 25.03.2026 Between :

J.Srinivas & another … Petitioners/A.6 & A.8 And State of Telangana, Rep., by its Special Public Prosecutor, C.B.I., Hyderabad& another … Respondents : O R D E R:

This petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 praying this Court to quash the proceedings against the petitioners in C.C.No.16 of 2014 on the file of Principal Special Sessions Judge for CBI Cases, Hyderabad, wherein the alleged offences against the petitioners are under Sections 120-B r/w.420, 409, 467, 467 r/w.472, 468 r/w.471 of Indian Penal Code and under Section 13 (2) r/w.13 (1) (d) and substantive offences.

2. The prosecution case is that the 2nd respondent lodged a complaint, based on which the CBI, Economic Offences Wing, registered FIR No.14(E)/2012 alleging that A.1 to A.8 entered into a criminal conspiracy to defraud Indian Bank, Osmangunj Branch, Hyderabad. A.1, K. Suresh Kumar, initially availed an Open Cash Credit (OCC) limit of Rs.15 lakh in September 2001 in the name of M/s. Sirish Traders, which was later renamed