IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8364 OF 2009 Between: 1. Ravi Gadiraju 2. M.P. Raju ……Petitioners – Accused Nos.1 and 2 AND M/s. Asian Timber Estates, Rep. by its proprietress Smt. Ch. Padmavathi & another.....Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8364 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Ravi Gadiraju and M.P. Raju, accused Nos.1 and 2 respectively, seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C. No.1922 of 2006 on the file of III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hydeabad, filed by the complainant M/s. Asian Timber Estates, respondent No.1 herein, for the offences under Sections 420 and 120-B read with 34 IPC. 2. Heard. 3. The C.C. is of 2006, which the petitioners seek to quash now in 2009. Hence, without going into the merits of the case, the petition is liable to be dismissed, as in case there is no prima facie case against the petitioners, they ought to have approached this Court initially itself. 4. However, as the C.C. is of 2006, the trial Court is directed to dispense with the presence of the petitioners during trial on an application being filed for the same and on their being represented properly. As it is reported that charges were already framed, it is directed that the petitioners shall invariably attend before the trial Court at the time of their examination under Section 313 Cr.P.C. and judgment. 5. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the admission stage itself ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J December 21, 2009. PV