HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.1254 of 2026 Between :

A. Vara Prasad Reddy S/o. A. Venkateshwara Reddy Aged: 68 years, Occ: Buisness, Resident of Village No.39, Hill ridge Villas, Gachibowli, Ranga Reddy, Telangana ….Petitioner/Accused VERSUS Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Enterprises Represented by its Partner K. Sanjeev Kumar Reddy Running business under the name and style of Le Vantage at premises No.8-2-293/82/A/197, Jubliee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 and another … Respondents DATE OF JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED: 31.03.2026 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO 1. Whether Reporters of Local Yes/No newspapers may be allowed to see the Judgments?

2. Whether the copies of judgment may Yes/No be marked to Law Reporters/Journals?

3. Whether Their Ladyship/Lordship wish Yes/No to see the fair copy of the Judgment?

_______________________ J. SREENIVAS RAO, J THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO + CRIMINAL PETITION No.1254 of 2026 % Dated 31.03.2026 # A. Vara Prasad Reddy S/o. A. Venkateshwara Reddy Aged: 68 years, Occ: Buisness, Resident of Village No.39, Hill ridge Villas, Gachibowli, Ranga Reddy, Telangana ….Petitioner/Accused VERSUS $ Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Enterprises Represented by its Partner K. Sanjeev Kumar Reddy Running business under the name and style of Le Vantage at premises No.8-2-293/82/A/197, Jubliee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 and another … Respondents ! Counsel for Petitioner : Mr. N. Naveen Kumar ^ Counsel for Respondents : Mr. Darmesh D.K. Jaiswal (Respondent No.1)

Mr. Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1-State GIST:

> HEAD NOTE:

? CITATIONS:

1. (2009) 1 SCC 101 2. (2020) 4 SCC 162

3. 2025 SCC OnLine Kar 20758

4. (2019) 14 SCC 350 HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 1254 of 2026 DATE:31.03.2026 Between :

A. Vara Prasad Reddy ....Petitioner/Accused AND Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Enterprises, and another ....Respondents : O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition has been filed under Section 582 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, by the petitioner/accused seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.7472 of 2023 on the file of the XVII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally, registered for the offence punishable under Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

2. Brief facts of the case:

2.1. Respondent No.1 filed a private complaint under Section 190(1) and (a) of Cr.P.C. read with 200 of Cr.P.C., on 09.05.2023 before the XVII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally, Hyderabad, against the petitioner for the offence under Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the IPC’) punishable under Section 500 of the IPC, stating that respondent No.1 is a partnership firm engaged in the business of running a Lounge under the name and style of ‘LE VANTAGE’ in a rental premises bearing Municipal No.8-2-293/82/A/197, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad (hereinafter referred to, as ‘the subject property’). The firm has also registered its trademark namely ‘Le Vantage Café Bar’ with the Government of India, dated 28.06.2018 and 29.11.2019 and the Registrar of Trademarks issued the certificates of registration under Form RG-2, dated 21.12.2018 and 29.11.2019.

2.2. It is further stated that the petitioner and his wife are owners of the land admeasuring 1672 sq. yards situated in Plot No.197 and 197/A, Road No.3, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, having purchased the same in the year 2004. Respondent No.1 approached the petitioner in the year 2016 and let out the above said premises on lease and executed a registered rental agreement bearing document No.6316 of 2016 dated 03.12.2016 for a period of three years commencing from

03.12.2016 to 02.11.2019.

2.3. When the petitioner and his son came to the subject property on 23.09.2019 along with antisocial elements and threatened respondent No.1 and his wife to vacate the premises, respondent No.1 filed a suit in O.S.