IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.1575 OF 2010 Between: G. Bhaskar Rao ……Petitioner – Accused AND The State of A.P., Rep. by the Public Prosecutor High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another .....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.1575 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner - G. Bhaskar Rao, accused, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C. No.582 of 2006 on the file of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, filed by the complainant - the State Bank of Hyderabad, Uppal Branch, for the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. 2. Heard. 3. The calendar case is of 2006. Further, there is no dispute about the signature of the petitioner on the cheques in dispute. Such being the case, absolutely there are no grounds to entertain this petition. 4. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the admission stage itself. However, the petitioner can take all the pleas, taken before this Court, before the trial Court. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J February 24, 2010. PV