THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5866 OF 2010 DATED 9th JULY, 2010. BETWEEN Garine Sridhar …Petitioner-accused and The State of A.P. and another ...Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5866 OF 2010 ORDER: This criminal petition under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is filed by the petitioner-accused seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.1962 of 2007 on the file of the IX Metropolitan Magistrate, Kukatpally at Miyapur, Ranga Reddy District, for the offence punishable under sections 420 and 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. Learned counsel for the petitioner after arguing for sometime submitted to this Court that he is not pressing the main prayer and requested for dispensing with the presence of the petitioner before the trial Court. In view of the same, this Court is not inclined to go into the merits and roots of the prosecution case. The offence alleged against the petitioner is punishable under sections 420 and 468 of the Indian Penal Code. Generally, in this type of cases, the question of identity of the accused does not arise. Therefore, the request of the petitioner’s counsel for dispensing with the presence of the petitioner before the trial Court can be considered. Accordingly, the presence of the petitioner before the trial Court in C.C.No.1962 of 2007 is dispensed with except on the dates the trial Judge insist for appearance of the petitioner. With above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 09.07.2010 sur