THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8088 of 2008 Dated : 17.02.2010 Between : Pidikiti Venkatesulu ….. Petitioner-A.3 a n d 1) Deputy Superintendent of Police 2) Parameswarappa ….. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.8088 OF 2008 ORDER : This criminal petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner-A.2 seeking to quash proceedings against him in Crime No.3/RCT/ATP/08 of ACB Police Station, Anantapur, registered for the offence punishable under Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. 2) Heard. 3) The offence is of the year 2008 and this criminal petition seeking to quash the proceedings is filed in the year 2008. On 10.12.2008, the matter was adjourned for one week as none appeared for the petitioner. Thereafter, only today at the request of the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petition came up for hearing. Thus, the petition is lying since the year 2008 even without any interim orders till today. Therefore, at this stage, I am not at all inclined to grant any relief to the petitioner and without going into the merits of the case this petition is dismissed. ______________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J 22nd February, 2010 SUR