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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA

AT HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO

CRIMINAL PETITION No.17419 of 2025

Date: 23.12.2025

Between:

Pola Laxmi Narsaiah

...Petitioner

AND

The State of Telangana,

Represented by Public Prosecutor,

High Court of Judicature, Hyderabad and another

...Respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition has been filed seeking to

quash the proceedings in C.C.No.1684 of 2021 on the file

of learned Judicial First Class Magistrate-cum-Principal

Junior Civil Judge at Devarakonda, wherein the petitioner

was arrayed as accused No.4, for the offences punishable

under Section 20(2) of The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco

Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of

trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution)

Act, 2003 (for short ‘COTP Act’).

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2. Heard Mr.Y.Bala Murali, learned counsel for the

petitioner and Mr.Jithendar Rao Veeramalla, learned

Additional Public Prosecutor for respondents.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the

issue raised in this criminal petition is squarely covered by

the order passed by this Court in Crl.P.No.152 of 2020 and

batch, dated 05.07.2021.

4. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor has not

opposed the submissions made by the learned counsel for

petitioner.

5. Having considered the submissions made by the

learned counsel for the petitioner and the order passed by

this Court in Crl.P.No.152 of 2020 and batch, dated

05.07.2021, this criminal petition is allowed. The

proceedings against the petitioner/accused No.4 in

C.C.No.1684 of 2021 on the file of learned Judicial First

Class Magistrate-cum-Principal Junior Civil Judge at

Devarakonda, are hereby quashed. Further the Station

House Officer/Investigating Officer is hereby directed to

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return the seized property on proper identification and

verification under due acknowledgment.

Pending miscellaneous applications, if any, shall

stand closed.

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JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO

Date:23.12.2025

Note :

The Registry is directed

to enclose a copy of the order in

Crl.P.No.152 of 2020 and batch,

dated 05.07.2021, to this order.

B/o.

NIT/LK