THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8257 OF 2009 Dated : 23.12.2009 Between : P.Laxminarayana ….. Petitioners/A.2 to A.4 a n d 1) A.Parijatham 2) The State of A.P. ….. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8257 OF 2009 ORDER : This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. by the petitioners/A.2 to A.4 seeking to quash proceedings against them in C.C.No.714 of 2007 on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, for the offence punishable under Sections 323 and 506 IPC. 2) Heard. 3) The Calendar case is of the year 2007 and the petition seeking to quash the proceedings is filed in the year 2009. Hence, without going into merits of the case, this petition is liable to be dismissed as in case there is no prima facie material against the petitioners, they ought to have approached this Court at the initial stage itself and the petitioners might have filed this petition in order to delay the disposal of main case. 4) Therefore, the criminal petition is dismissed. However, the petitioners can take all the pleas taken by them before this Court before the trial Court. Further, as the C.C. is of the year 2007, the trial Court shall dispose of the same expeditiously. ______________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J 23rd December, 2009 SUR