ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners – accused seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR No.726 of 2025 on the file of P.S. Rajendranagar, Cyberabad, registered for the offences under Sections 3 29 (3), 324(4), 132 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNS, 2023”) and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 .

2. Heard the submissions of Sri B.Srinivas, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Erigi Ganesh, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1 – State.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners are the owners of the property to an extent of Ac.01-33 guntas in suvey No.16 and that there is a dispute with boundary wall and that the HYDRAA has issued notice to the petitioners and that they have replied stating that they are the owners of the property and that they have not encroached any land and that they also have documents in support of their case and that the HYDRAA, without considering their reply, has lodged the present complaint. He further submitted that the proceedings are civil in nature but the HYDRAA has intentionally converted it into criminal case and therefore, h