IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.10400 OF 2009 Between: Muppidi Gabriel, S/o. Sattayya ……Petitioner – Accused No.1 AND The State of A.P., Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad (CBI, SPE, Hydeabad) .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.10400 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner Muppidi Gabriel, accused No.1, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C. No.691 of 2005 on the file of XXIII Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, arising out of Crime No.3/E/2003 of Central Bureau of Investigation, Hyderabad, for the offences under Sections 6 read with 23 of the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act, 1976 and 120-B IPC. 2. Heard. 3. The C.C. is of 2005, which the petitioner seeks to quash now in 2009. Hence, without going into the merits of the case, the petition is liable to be dismissed, as in case there is no prima facie case against the petitioner, he ought to have approached this Court initially itself. 4. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the admission stage itself. The petitioner is at liberty to take all the pleas raised in this petition before the trial Court as well. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J December 17, 2009. PV