HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.748 & 768 OF 2008 DATE:22-07-2010 CRIMINAL PETITION No.748 OF 2008 BETWEEN AGA Publications Pvt. Ltd., Rep. by its Chairman & Managing Director Mr.Girish Sanghi, Door No.396, Lower Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad & Others. …Petitioners AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by Special Public Prosecutor, Hyderabad. …Respondent CRIMINAL PETITION No.768 OF 2008 BETWEEN AGA Publications Pvt. Ltd., Rep. by its Chairman & Managing Director Mr.Girish Sanghi, Door No.396, Lower Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad & Others. …Petitioners AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by Special Public Prosecutor, Hyderabad. …Respondent THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.748 & 768 OF 2008 COMMON ORDER: These two petitions under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.2 of 2007 and C.C.No.1 of 2007 are filed by the petitioners who are arrayed as A.1 to A.3 in the said C.Cs. The petitioners were charged for the offences punishable under Sections 499, 500, 501 and 502 I.P.C. Learned counsel for the petitioners inter alia contended that the complaint as such filed by the Special Public Prosecutor, a senior advocate appointed for the said purpose cannot be maintainable as held by this Court in State of A.P. and another v. Margadarsi Financiers and Others (2009 CRI.L.J. 2705). In the decision referred to above, a Division Bench of this Court set aside the prosecution launched by the Special Public Prosecutor appointed for the said purpose. Hence, following the decision in Margadarsi Financiers and Others, referred to supra, and for the reasons mentioned therein, these two Criminal Petitions are allowed and the impugned proceedings are accordingly quashed. _______________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. JULY 22, 2010 Tsr.