OR.DER.

Issue notice to respondent No.2.

Personal notice is permitted.

List on 05.11.2020.

Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that respondent No,2 has already issued notice dated 22,07.2020 for the offence under Section 138 of the N,I. Act and the petitioners have submitted their reply, Even then, respondent No.2 has lodged complaint dated 20,08,202O i.e,, on the next day of the reply dated 19,08,2020. The Police have also issued a notice under Section 41-A of the Cr.P.C. and the petitioners have already submitted their reply on 2o.o9.2020. Learned counsel for the petitioners would further submit that the Police, instead of considering the reply submitted by the petitioners, are harassing the petitioners by calling them to the Police Station at the instance of respondent No.2.

The above stated facts would reveal that the imprisonment prescribed for the offences alleged against the petitioners is below seven years. As the petitioners have already submitted their reply dated 2O.O9.2O2O to the notice issued under Section 41-A of Cr.P,C., the Police, Mahankali Police Station, Secunderabad, are directed to consider the reply dated 20,09.2020 and follow the procedure laid down u