THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 6241 OF 2010. O R D E R : This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused under section 482 Cr.P.C., seeking to quash the proceedings in Cr.No.124 of 2008 of Dharoor Police Station, Mahbubnagar district and to stay all further proceedings including arrest of the petitioner in the above crime. When the matter came up for consideration, today the Respondent No.1 filed an affidavit, which reads as hereunder: I, Sri M. Ranganna s/o Hanumanna, aged about 40 years, Occupation: Sarpanch of Erlabanda village r/o. Erlabanda village Dharur Mandal, Mahbubnagar district, now having temporarily come down to Hyderabad, do hereby solemnly affirm and sincerely state on oath as under: 1. I am the deponent herein and Respondent No.1 in the above criminal petition and as such I am well acquainted with the facts of the case. 2. I respectfully submit that I am resident of Erlabanda village and I am a Sarpanch of the said Gram Panchayath. I further submit that the petitioner is working as Secretary of our village and when I suspected that the petitioner has issued some property valuation certificates to the villagers for the purpose of sureties by forging my signatures as Sarpanch of the said Gram Panchayath and as such I gave a report to the police on 20-11- 2008 and basing on my report the Station House Officer, Dharur Police Station has registered a case in Cr.No.124 of 2008 under section 468 and 420 IPC against the petitioner. 3. I further submit that I thoroughly verified the certificates in dispute and came to a conclusion that the signatures on those certificates were signed by me and immediately I also reported the same to the police but the police did not close the case. I also submit that subsequently the petitioner filed the above criminal petition to quash the proceedings in Cr.No.124 of 2008 of Dharur Police Station. 5. I respectfully submit that the above stated property valuation certificates were signed by me and since noticed the said mistake I don’t want to pursue the above case. I submit that I have no objection to quash the proceedings in Cr.No.124 of 2008. I also hereby declare that there is no threat/coercion in filing this affiavit. 6. In view of the above stated facts and circumstances, I pray this Hon’ble Court to allow the criminal petition by quashing the proceedings in Cr.No.124 of 2008 of Dharur Police Station, Mahbubnagar district in the interest of justice. 7. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. 8. Respondent No.1 also filed household ration card issued by the Civil Supplies Department and the same was verified. He informed this Court that he is willing to compromise the matter with the petitioner. He also filed the identification card and the same was verified and returned to him. 9. In the light of the above facts and circumstances and in terms of compromise stated hereinabove, all further proceedings in Cr.No.124 of 2008 of Dharoor Police Station, Mahbubnagar district be and is hereby quashed. 10. The Criminal Petition is accordingly allowed. ______________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO. 04-08-2010 I s L THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6241 of 2010 04-8-2010 I s L