DEVIREDDY VENKAT REDDY Vs. BANKARUPANDA PADMAVATHI AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., for quashing all further proceedings in C.C. No. 1535 of 2008 on the file of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, registered under Section 500 IPC.

(2.) THE petitioner is shown as an accused and in the year 2008, he was working as Senior Branch Manager at Bank of India, Overseas Branch, Waltair Main Road, Visakhapatnam. At that time, the 1st respondent/complainant was working as Computer Terminal Operator in the same bank. When the present petition is filed in the year 2011, the petitioner/accused was working as a Chief Manager, Bank of India, Kolhapur, Maharashtra and the respondent/complainant is said to have taken voluntary retirement from the bank services. The averments of the complaint, in brief, are as under: - -

(3.) AFTER recording the sworn statement of the complainant and two other witnesses by names Jaldi Ishmael Babu, S/o. Prabhudas and Srinivasulu Ram Kumar s/o. S. Janakiram, the learned Magistrate took cognizance of the private complaint and issued summons to the petitioner/accused.