THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.36 of 2010 Dated : 17.02.2010 Between : Madhav Reddy & another ….. Petitioners-A.1 & A.2 a n d The State of A.P. & another ….. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.36 OF 2010 ORDER : This criminal petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners-A.1 & A.2 seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.1403 of 2009 of Banjara Hills Police Station, Hyderabad, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 406, 420, 509 read with Section 34 IPC and Section 3 (1) (x) of SC & ST (POA) Act. 2) Heard. 3) The complainant is a Deputy Collector belonging to Schedule Caste. The allegations against the present petitioners are that they have collected Rs.5 lakhs from the complainant on the pretext of getting a seat for her son in an Engineering College and thereafter failed to get the seat and also refusing to return the amount taken and when the complainant demanded to return the amount abusing her by taking her caste name. 4) In view of the nature of allegations and as prima facie the complaint reveals specific allegations against the petitioners, it is not at all a fit case for quashing the proceedings against the petitioners. 5) Therefore, the criminal petition is dismissed. ______________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J 17th February, 2010 SUR