HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No:13232 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioner filed the present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.232 of 2000 on the file of the XVII Metropolitan Magistrate/Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad on the ground that the continuance of the said proceedings is nothing but an abuse of process of the Courts. Heard. A case was registered in Crime No.110 of 1998 on 31.3.1998 and charge sheet was filed on 7.3.2000 and the XVII Metropolitan Magistrate took cognizance of the same and numbered it as C.C.No.232 of 2000 for the offence punishable under Sections 406, 409, 420 and 120-B IPC and the case is pending for the last more than 10 years. At this length of time, the present application is filed. I do not see any merits in this petition. Hence, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. However, as and when the petitioner is absent and the application is filed to condone his absence under Section 317 Cr.P.C., the Court below may consider the said application and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. ______________________________ Justice Gopala Krishna Tamada Dated: 30.12.2010 Nn HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA CRIMINAL PETITION No:13232 OF 2010 30.12.2010