THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.DURGA PRASAD CRIMINAL PETITION NO.3382 OF 2008 ORDER: This is a petition filed under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code (for short Cr.P.C.) for quashing the proceedings in Crime No.124 of 2008 on the file of Amangal Police Station, Mahaboobnagar District. 2. The petitioner herein is shown as accused in the above said crime along with other three accused. The said crime was registered at the instance of the 2nd respondent herein, wherein he has alleged that he is having a land dispute case before Joint Collector, Mahaboobnagar and also in the High Court and he engaged the present petitioner as his advocate. The present petitioner and other accused, who are the joint petitioners along with him in the said land dispute case colluded together and forged his signature on a compromise memo and filed the same before the Joint Collector and basing on the said compromise memo, the Joint Collector has dismissed the said case. Thereafter, he has made an application before the Joint Collector, Mahaboobnagar. The Joint Collector has made an endorsement and informed him to make a complaint before the Bar Council, High Court of Andhra Pradesh and also to file an appeal before the High Court. As such, he has filed the present complaint. The allegation made against the present petitioner is that he along with other accused forged the signature of 2nd respondent herein on the compromise memo and filed the same before the Joint Collector. Whether the said signature of the complainant was forged or not has to be ascertained during the course of investigation and prima-facie the allegation will attract an offence of Sections 417 and 420 IPC. As such the petitioner is not entitled for quashing of the proceedings under the above said sections. 3. In the FIR, Section 3 (ix) of S.Cs and S.Ts (POA) Act, 1989 is also added apart from the above said sections of IPC. But there is no allegation in the complaint to attract the provisions of S.Cs and S.Ts (POA) Act. As such, the same has to be quashed. 4. Accordingly, the petition is allowed and the proceedings against the present petitioner in Crime No.124 of 2008 on the file of Amangal Police Station, Mahaboobnagar District under Section 3 (ix) of S.Cs and S.Ts (POA) Act are hereby quashed and the proceedings under Sections 417, 420 and 468 IPC shall go on. _______________________ P.DURGA PRASAD, J 25th March, 2011 KSP