1. This is a Criminal Petition filed, under Section 482 Cr.P.C, by the petitioners/A1 to A4 seeking to quash the proceedings initiated against them in Drugs Sessions Case No.2 of 2013 dated 26.02.2015, consequently discharge the petitioners and sought for stay pending final disposal of the case.

2. The petitioners 1 to 4 are the accused in Drugs Sessions Case No.2/2013 on the file of I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad. The first respondent is the Union of India, represented by the Drug Inspector, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, CDSCO Bhavan, Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar, Hyderabad. The second respondent is the State of Telangana, represented by its Public Prosecutor.

3. The first petitioner is the company represented by its Managing Director-third petitioner and besides the third petitioner individually impleaded being the Managing Director, the other petitioners 2 and 4 as Directors, all the four petitioners are shown as accused in the complaint laid by the first respondent-Drugs Inspector for the offence punishable under Section 16(1)(a) of the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 (for short, ‘the Act’) which contravention is punishable under Section 27 of the