THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.3931 of 2008 O R D E R: This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused to quash the proceedings against him in Crime No.312 of 2005 on the file of Begumpet Police Station, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420,468 and 471 IPC. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. The only ground urged by the petitioner is that even though the case was registered in the year 2005 ie., on 30.7.2005, till today, there is no progress in the investigation and also there is no order of stay by this Court. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor also on verification informed that there is no progress in the investigation since the officials in the United Kingdom and Dubai are not co-operating with the investigating agency. Further the learned counsel for the petitioner relied on the judgment reported in Abdul Rehman Antulay and others v R.S.Nayak and another[1] in which the principles laid down by the Supreme Court that in case of long duration of non-filing of charge sheet and no progress in the investigation, the First Information Report is liable to be quashed. Taking into consideration the nature of offence and also the delay in investigation, this Court is inclined to quash the complaint on the file of Begumpet Police Station, Hyderabad and further the learned counsel submitted that ever since from the date of registration of FIR, the respondent/police seized his passport and the same is with the respondent and he could not able to move anywhere to seek his livelihood. Considering all these facts, this Court is of the opinion that this is a case wherein the Court interfered with and quash the FIR and accordingly, the proceedings in Crime No.312 of 2005 on the file of Begumpet Police Station, Hyderabad, are hereby quashed and the respondent herein is directed to return the passport to the petitioner herein. The petitioner herein is directed to approach the Investigation Officer by way of filing an application for return of the passport concerned. On such filing of application, the respondent is directed to return the same, if necessary, to impose some conditions. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is allowed. __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 30th June, 2010. PNV [1] (1992) 1 SCC 225