THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL PETITION No.3367 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioner/A.1 is accused of offences punishable under Sections 419 and 468 IPC in C.C.No.770 of 2008 on the file of V Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kakinada. He was Ex-Sarpanch of G. Medapadu Gram Panchayat. It is alleged that during September 2005, there was damage to paddy crops in East Godavari District, and that after following due procedure, the Revenue Authorities enumerated 1243 farmers as affected persons and had drawn Rs.92,12,448/- from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. Subject matter of this case is an amount of Rs.6000/- and odd. It is prosecution case that A.1, the then Sarpanch, issued false identification certificates in favour of A.2 to A.7 identifying them as other farmers who were enumerated as affected persons. Those affected farmers are shown as witnesses in the charge sheet. Simply because the Sarpanch has no role in enumeration and simply because the amount involved in this matter is a small amount, it cannot be said that the petitioner had no involvement in this offence. The question whether A.1 gave false identification certificates in favour of A.2 to A.7 is one of the fact. This is not a case where identification certificates were given to the really affected farmers and they were misused by A.2 to A.7. As per the prosecution case, it was A.1 who gave false identification certificates to A.2 to A.7 as if they are other farmers who were enumerated by the Revenue Officials. At this stage, I do not find any merits in this petition. Hence, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ________________________________ (SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J.) 22nd April, 2010 Js.