ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner – accused seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR No.302 of 2025 on the file of P.S. Kalwakurthy, Nagarkurnool District, registered for the offences under Sections 305 (e), 352 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNS, 2023”) and Sections 3(1)(r) of SC/ST (POA) Act and Section 66C of IT Act, 2008 .

2. Heard the submissions of Sri K.Krishna Shrawan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent No.1 –

State.

3. The learned petitioner counsel submitted that the petitioner has not committed any offence as alleged and that he has only mentioned the factual aspect on his whatsapp message and that he has not resorted to any abuse in the name of caste, neither he has humiliated nor he has threatened anyone and has not disturbed any public peace. He further submitted that many newspapers have published the news in this regard that the de facto complainant was removed from service but however, he was taken back and the same thing was shared as a message by him on whatsapp and he never entertained any evil intention or mens rea in posting the said me