HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8080 OF 2010 Dated : 24.08.2010 Between : Y.G.K.Murthy & another … Petitioners-accused a n d The State of A.P. & another … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.8080 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioners-accused seeking to quash the orders dated 07.07.2010 passed in Crl.M.P.No.2393 of 2010 in C.C.No.154 of 2008 by the XVI Additional Judge-cum-XX Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad. Petitioners filed the impugned petition under Section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act seeking to send Ex.P.2-cheque to the Handwriting Expert for comparing the signatures and handwriting of the first petitioner with his admitted handwriting and signatures and the said petition was dismissed. As against the same, petitioners filed this Criminal Petition. Heard. The learned Judge while adjudicating the impugned petition gave a detailed discussion and opined that the Handwriting Expert opinion will not be helpful in any way in arriving a just conclusion of the case. He elaborately discussed various decisions and passed the impugned order and the same needs no interference of this Court. Therefore, this Court is not inclined to grant the relief prayed by the petitioners in this Criminal Petition. When this Court expressed the said view, learned counsel for the petitioners requested this Court to direct the trial Court for comparing the handwriting and signatures on Ex.P.2 personally. Considering the same and also for just and proper adjudication of the case, it is directed that the learned trial Judge in exercise of powers conferred under Section 72 of the Indian Evidence Act shall obtain the signatures of the person, whose signature is available on Ex.P.2, and to compare the same with the handwriting and signature available on Ex.P.2 and also to take into consideration the result of said scrutiny while adjudicating the Calendar Case. With above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 24.08.2010 sur