IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 3143 OF 2024 DATE: 23.03.2026 Between :

Doddi Srinivas … Petitioner/Accused No.3.

AND The State of Telangana, represented by its Public Prosecutor, High Court, and another.

… Respondents.

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“Cr.P.C.”), seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C. No.864 of 2022 pending on the file of the learned XI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Secunderabad.

2. The petitioner is arrayed as Accused No.3 in the said Calendar Case. At the relevant point of time, the petitioner was serving as Senior Assistant at Sub-Registrar’s Office, Marredpally. The offence alleged against the petitioner is punishable under Section 420 read with Section

34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

3.1. The prosecution case, in brief, is that on 04.05.2021, Respondent No.2 lodged a complaint alleging that Accused No.1, who is one of the legal heirs of late Smt. Noorunnissa Begum, the original owner of Plot No.47 admeasuring 252 square yards situated in Sri Malani Co-operative Housing Socie