IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2226 OF 2009 Between: Narayanam Venkanna Babu, S/o. Krishnamacharyulu ……Petitioner – accused AND The State of A.P., Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & another …… Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2226 OF 2009 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner Narayanam Venkanna Babu, accused, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C. No.492 of 2007 on the file of Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Chirala, filed by the complainant Gummadilly Lakshmi, respondent No.2 herein. 2. Heard. 3. There is no dispute about the signature of the petitioner being found on the cheque in dispute. 4. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that while the daughter of the complainant was working as ‘Aaya’ in the school of the petitioner, she has stolen away certain cheques and she has manipulated one of those cheques as an alleged instrument, which is subject matter of C.C. No.557 of 2007 pending in the same Court, on her name and the present cheque was given to her father, the complainant herein, on the basis of which the present false complaint is filed by him. 5. At this stage, it is difficult to accept the contention of the learned counsel that the signed cheques of the petitioner were stolen away by the daughter of the complainant; which is a question of fact to be decided by the trial Court during trial. 6. Thus, it is not at all a fit case for quashing the impugned proceedings against the petitioner. 7. Therefore, the Criminal Petition is dismissed at the stage of admission itself. ______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J November 12, 2009. PV