HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.11245 OF 2024

ORAL ORDER

Heard Mr. D. Bhaskar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Syed Yasar Mamoon, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent No.1 - State.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section - 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.632 of 2019 pending on the file of I Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Warangal.

3. The petitioner herein is arraigned as accused No.1 in the said case. The offences alleged against him are under Sections - 341, 290 & 188 read with 34 of IPC and Section - 123 (1) of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (for short ‘R.P. Act’).

4. On the complaint lodged by respondent No.2 - Assistant Engineer, Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation, Inthezargunj Police Station registered a case in Crime No.416 of 2018 against the petitioner and others for the aforesaid offences. As per the complaint of respondent No.2, dated 30.11.2018, the allegations levelled against the petitioner and others are that while he was discharging election duty in the capacity of In-charge of Model Code