IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.6379 OF 2007 Between: Vanapally Simhachalam and two others … Petitioner And The State of A.P., through Public Prosecutor and another … Respondents This Court made the following: HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.6379 OF 2007 ORDER:- This criminal petition is filed by the petitioners seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.677 of 2007 on the file of I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam. A limited stay was granted by this Court on 29.02.2008 and the same got expired on 29.04.2009 and thereafter, there is no interim stay. As this is a petition to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.677 of 2007 and as the interim stay granted earlier was not extended for further period, this Court is of the view that as of now, the trial in the said C.C. must have been over or it is in progress. In the light of the above, at this length of time, this Court is not inclined to entertain this petition and go into the merits of the case. Accordingly, the criminal petition is dismissed. _____________________________ GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J 21ST April 2010 lmv