CRLP/2458/2025 of MADDALA SRI GOWTHAM Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010113612025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3457] (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2458/2025 Between: Maddala Sri Gowtham ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Pradesh and Others Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. MANGENA SREE RAMA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HN, J 2 Crl.P.No.2458_2025 The Court made the following Order: The petitioner is seeking to quash the C.C.No.450 of 2018 on the file of the I Additional Judicial Magistrate of I Class, Bhimavaram. 2. The petitioner is arraigned as an accused in C.C.No.450 of 2018 for the alleged offence under Sections 138 and 145 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, (for short, “NI Act”). 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner/accused submits that the without service of the statutory notice, the respondent No.2/complainant lodged a complaint. In that regard, the petitioner filed Crl.M.P.No.1226 of 2022 to summon the beat book relating to the service of the notice on the alleged date of service. Upon dismissal