Telangana High Court
Premala Sravani, Warangal., vs Ennapu Reddy Raji Reddy, Warangal And … on 19 August, 2025
THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.10548 and 10500 of 2017 COMMON ORDER:
These two criminal petitions have been filed under
Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
(for short, ‘Cr.P.C.) by the petitioners, who were arrayed
as accused Nos.1 and 2, seeking to quash the proceedings
against them in Crime No.361 of 2017 of Subedari Police
Station, Warangal Urban District, for the offences
punishable under Sections 420, 406, 468, 387, 471 r/w
34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC‘).
2. Hence, these two criminal petitions were heard
together and are being disposed of by this common order.
3. Heard Mr.B.Chennaiah, learned counsel,
representing Mr.V.Siddhartha Goud, learned counsel for
the petitioner in Crl.P.No.10548 of 2017, Mr.P.Prabhakar
Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner in
Crl.P.No.10500 of 2017, Mr.T.Chandra Shekar, learned
counsel appearing on behalf of respondent No.1/de facto
complainant and Mr.M.Vivekananda Reddy, learned
Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of
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respondent No.2 in both the criminal petitions.
4. After perusal of the record, it reveals that on
13.11.2017 this Court while admitting the Criminal
Petition No.10500 of 2017 filed by accused No.2 passed
order in Crl.P.M.P.No.11682 of 2017, and the Investigating
Agency is directed to follow the procedure laid down under
Section 41-A of Cr.P.C and guidelines formulated by the
Apex Court in “Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar and
another 1″.
5. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submitted that
the Investigating Officer will follow the guidelines
formulated by the Hon’ble Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar
(supra) in both the cases.
6. Taking into consideration the above said
submissions, without expressing any view on the merits of
the case, Investigating Officer is directed to follow the
procedure as contemplated under Section 41-A of Cr.P.C
and the guidelines formulated by the Hon’ble Apex Court
in Arnesh Kumar (supra), complete the investigation and
shall file final report as expeditiously as possible,
preferably within a period of three (3) months from the
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date of receipt of copy of this Order. The petitioners shall
cooperate with the Investigating Officer.
7. Accordingly, both the criminal petitions are disposed
of.
Miscellaneous applications, pending if any, shall
stand closed.
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JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO
Date: 19.08.2025
Note: Registry is directed to communicate
the copy of this order to the Station House
officer, Subedari Police Station,
Warangal Urban District, within a period
of three days from today.
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