ORDER

This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, is filed by A1 and A2, to quash the proceedings in F.I.R.No.305 of 2022 of Gooty Police Station, Ananthapuramu District, registered for the offence punishable under Section 363 r/w 34 IPC.

2. Brief facts of the case are as follows;

On 23.9.2022 at 12.30 P.M., at Jangala Colony Arch, Tadipatri Road, Gooty Town, the petitioners along with four others came in a car and kidnapped the children by name 1. Md. Atheek Ahammad, aged 10 years, 2. Md. Arshad Ahmmad, aged 8 years, of the de facto complainant/2nd respondent herein, by pushing away the father of the de facto complainant/2nd respondent who was bringing the children from school. On that the de facto complainant/2nd respondent gave a report to the police and based on the said report a case in crime No.305 of 2022 was registered by police against the petitioners and others.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that even accepting the entire allegations to be true, still the offence under Section 363 r/w 34 IPC would not be made out for the reason that the petitioners herein are Sunni Muslims, who are governed by the Suni School of Mo