THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU CRIMINAL PETITION No. 2178 OF 2009 ORDER: 1. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to quash the proceedings in P.R.C. No.168 of 2000 on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, East & North, Ranga Reddy district. 2. Heard both sides. 3. The petitioner herein is A.3. As he was absconding, case against him was split up and renumbered as P.R.C. No.168 of 2000. The other three accused viz. A.1, A.2 and A.4 were tried by the Principal Assistant Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy district in Sessions Case No.167 of 2001, wherein all the material witnesses did not support the case of prosecution and therefore A.1, A.2 and A.4 were acquitted under Section 232 Cr.P.C. When all the witnesses, including the defacto complainant, turned hostile, and as the witnesses have already denied about the taking place of the incident in the manner alleged by the prosecution, no useful purpose would be served if the case is to be tried against the present petitioner, who is A.3, and it is waste of time of the police and Court in prosecuting him. 5. The Criminal Petition is, accordingly, allowed. The proceedings in P.R.C. No.168 of 2000 on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, East & North, Ranga Reddy district are quashed. ---------------- 06.8.2010 DRK THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU CRIMINAL PETITION No. 2178 OF 2009 Date: 6.8.2010 Between: G.Sham Sunder Reddy …Petitioner And State of A.P., rep. by its Public Prosecutor …Respondent THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU CRIMINAL PETITION No. 2204 OF 2009 6.8.2010