IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT

HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI

WRIT PETITION No.40792 OF 2025

DATED: 31^ST DECEMBER, 2025

Between

Panyala Raja Venkat Reddy …Petitioner

AND

The State of Telangana

rep. by its Principal Secretary,

Home Department and four others …Respondents

O R D E R

This Writ Petition is filed by the petitioner to declare the

action of the respondent No.3 in directing him to furnish the information vide impugned Notice dated 18.12.2025 issued under Section 94/106 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha

Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) as illegal.

02. Heard Sri Malla Reddy Gadipally, learned counsel

for the petitioner and Sri M. Srinivas, learned Assistant

Government Pleader for Home.

03. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the respondent No.3 is not having power to call for any incriminating material from the petitioner-accused under Section 94/106 of BNSS (corresponding to Sections 91/160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘CrPC’). In support of his contention, he relied upon the principle laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in State of Gujarat v. Shyamlal Mohanlal Choksi, AIR 1965 SC 1251 and prayed to quash the impugned no