THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G.SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO.2814 OF 2009 O R D E R: The petitioners seek for quashing of the First Information Report in Crime No.301 of 2009 on the file of Station House Officer, Kukatpally Police Station. The petitioners are tenants. The first respondent is the landlord. The petitioners have been running a hotel in Curry point, under the name and stile of B-Place in the premise taken from the first respondent on rent. Alleging that the petitioners cheated and threatened the complainant, the first respondent laid the First Information Report. 2. It is the case of the petitioners that when the first respondent attempted on 15.02.2009 to evict the petitioners highhandedly from the premises, the first petitioner preferred a suit for perpetual injunction in O.S.No.60 of 2009 on the file of the Additional Junior Civil Judge, Kukatpally. The first petitioner filed a suit against the first respondent. He obtained temporary injunction through orders, dated 15.4.2009 in I.A.No.139 of 2009. 3. The complaint, however, was lodged on 13.03.2009. It is the admitted case of both sides that the petitioners were tenants of the first respondent. The allegation of the first respondent in the First Information Report is that the petitioners failed to vacate the premises in terms of the agreement and failed to pay the rents. Both the allegations are Civil disputes in nature and do not constitute offences. 4. It is also alleged that the petitioners have stolen the power bills of the premises. When the petitioners admittedly are tenants of the premises, the question their stealing power bills does not arise. I, wholly agree with the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners, where admittedly the petitioner were tenants of the premises, that the First Information Report is misconceived and is liable to be quashed. Accordingly, the First Information Report in Crime No.301 of 2009 on the file of the Station House Officer, Kukatpally, against the petitioners is hereby quashed. 5. The Criminal Petition is allowed. __________________ K.G.SHANKAR, J NOVEMBER 02, 2011 YVL IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G.SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO.2814 OF 2009 Between: R.Naga Raju and another. …PETITIONERS AND The State of A.P. and another ...RESPONDENTS The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G.SHANKAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO.2814 OF 2009 02.11.2011 YVL