THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.1101 OF 2010 ORDER: This criminal petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners – accused seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.134 of 2005 on the file of the III Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada, which was later transferred to the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada, and renumbered as C.C.No.419 of 2008, arising out of a complaint registered under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. 2. Heard. 3. The C.C.is of the year 2005 and according to the learned counsel for the petitioners, the matter is posted today before the trial court for evidence. There are only four witnesses. As such, trial can be completed within a day or two. Though, learned counsel for the petitioners raised several questions, I am not inclined to entertain this petition at this belated stage of five years and that too when the trial is about to progress. 4. Hence, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. The petitioners can take all the pleas raised in this petition before the trial Court and the trial Court must complete the trial within a period of three months from today, as the C.C. is of the year 2005. ___________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J. 10th February 2010, Rns.