IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.6017 OF 2008 Between: V.V. Padmarao, S/o. Late Prabhakara Rao ……Petitioner – accused No.2 AND Basa Ganga Prakasa Rao & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.6017 OF 2008 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner V.V. Padmarao, accused No.2, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C. No.790 of 2007 on the file of III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada, Krishna District arising out of Crime No.259 of 2005 of Suryaraopet (Law & Order) Police Station, Vijayawada City registered for the offences punishable under Sections 120(b), 419, 420, 468 and 471 read with 34 IPC. 2. Heard. 3. The allegations against the petitioner – accused No.2 are that his brother-in-law’s - accused No.1’s father-in-law – de facto complainant handedover a car to accused No.1 for temporary use, but the petitioner alongwith accused No.1 forged the signatures of the de facto complainant and got transferred the car on the name of the petitioner. 4. There is no dispute that report of the forensic laboratory revealed that the car was transferred by forging the signatures of the de facto complainant. 5. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is not at all responsible for the offence as the car is handedover to accused No.1. 6. Maybe the contention of the learned counsel is true, but as there are specific allegations against the petitioner that he along with accused No.1 forged the signatures of the de facto complainant and got transferred the car on the name of the petitioner, it cannot be said that there is no prima facie case against the petitioner. Hence, it is not at all a fit case for quashing the proceedings against the petitioner. 7. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the stage of admission itself. ______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J October 22, 2009. PV