IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.455 OF 2008 Between: N. Narendra Babu ……Petitioner – Accused No.4 AND Pandula Visweswara Reddy & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.455 OF 2008 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner N. Narendra Babu, accused No.4, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C. No.201 of 2004 on the file of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Allagadda, arising out of Crime No.98 of 2003 of Sirvel Police Station, Kurnool District, registered for the offence under Section 420 IPC. 2. Heard. 3. Notice is not served on the de facto complainant – respondent No.1. 4. The C.C. is of 2004 and the petitioner filed this petition for quashing the same in 2008. In the circumstances, as this petition is filed belatedly i.e. four years of numbering the C.C., 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 him, he ought to have approached this Court initially itself. 5. 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. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J January 18, 2010. PV