IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.3654 OF 2023 DATE: 26-02-2026 Between:

Chegondi Hema Kiran … Petitioner And The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Telangana, at Hyderabad and another ... Respondents

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.3 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.1715 of 2022 on the file of learned X Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Secunderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 420 and 406 I.P.C. and Sections 4 and 76 of the Chit Funds Act.

2. Heard Sri Koppula Gopal, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri D. Arun Kumar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1-State and Sri Suresh Bhakthula, learned counsel for respondent No.2.

3. The case of the prosecution is that accused Nos.1 to 4 were running an unregistered private chit business, collected amounts from the innocent people and cheated them in order to gain profits wrongfully. Accused Nos.1 and 2 were illiterate and so their children i.e., accused Nos.3 and 4 were maintaining the chit transactions.

4. Learned counsel