Held that the inflation of surety amounts and financial hardship of petitioners warrant reduction of bond and surety.
Criminal Petition partially allowed; surety amount reduced to Rs. 5,000 with one surety each.
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HIGH COURTFOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
FRIDAY,THENINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO TI-IOUSANDAND TWENTY FOUR
PRESENT
THE HONOURABLESMT.JUSTICE K. SUJANA
CRIMIN ALPETITION NO: 15310F 2024
Between:
...Petitioners/AccusedNos. I to 5
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The State of Telangana,Represented by its P S Kachiguda Through Public Prosecutor HighCourt for the Slate of Telangana
...RespondenU ResPondent
Petition under Section482 of Cr.P C prayingthat in the circumstances stated in the Memorandumof Grounds of criminalPel.ition, theHighcourt may be pleased to quash the impugned Docket Order dated15.03.2023by reducing the surety amount of Rs.10,000/-with 2 sureties eachof like sum to each of the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 to5 in the abovec.c.No.5679 of 2021 as it is beyond the financial reach and thesame may be reduced limiting to furnishpersonal bonds only.
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Petition underSection482 of Cr'P'Cprayingthat in thecircumstances statedin theMemorandum of Groundsof Criminal Petition'the High Court-may-be pi"ri"A to stay all furtherproceedingsof C C'No5679OF 2021on the file of lV iJJii""rr CnilfMetropolitanMagiitrate,City CriminalCourts'Hyderabadat Nampally.
This Petition comingon for hearing,upon perusingtheMemorandumof Grounds of CriminalPetition and upon hearingthe argumentsof Sri Pallerla Saketh Chandra,Advocate for the Petitioners and Sri S' Ganesh' Assistant Public Prosecut6r onbehalf of the Respondent'
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The Court madethe following:ORDER
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THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA
CRIMINAL PETITION No.1531 of2O24
ORDER:
This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 4g2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short Cr.p.C.J challenging the docket order dated 15.03.2022 in C.C.No.56Z9 of 2O2l on the hle of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, City Criminal Court, Nampally, Hyderabad, wherein the petitioners were directed to execute a personal bond for Rs.10,000/- with two sureties like each.
4 Having regard to the petition averments and also in view of the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, this Court is inclined to reduce the suretv amount
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from Rs. 10,000/- with rwo (O2) sureties to Rs.S,OOO/_ (rupees five thousand only) with one (O 1) surety like each to the satisfaction of the trial Court
5 Accordingly, the Criminal petition is partly allowed. Miscellaneous applications, if aly pending, shall also
stand closed.
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PARTLY ALLOWING THE CRLP
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2 issues framed by the court
Whether the surety amount of Rs. 10,000 with two sureties can be reduced given the financial status of the petitioners.
Whether the impugned docket order directing execution of bond should be quashed or modified.
1 provisions across 1 enactments
J. Raiender Kumar
Karishma Jaiswal
Ashish Jaiswal
Smt. Indumathi
Aman Jaiswal
State of Telangana
J. Sujana
As recorded by the court registry
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