THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI

Criminal Petition No.6566 of 2024

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya

Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’) seeking quashment of proceedings against the petitioners/accused Nos.1 to 3 in C.C.No.245 of 2024 on the file of the Junior Civil Judge-cum-Judicial

Magistrate of First Class, Nakrekal, Nalgonda District.

2. I have heard Sri M.V.S.Sai Sharath, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public

Prosecutor, representing the respondent No.1-State.

3. The petitioners are accused Nos.1 to 3 in C.C.No.245 of 2024 for

the offence under Section 498-A of IPC.

4. Briefly stated, the prosecution’s case is that on 23.01.2024, the respondent No. 2/de facto complainant lodged a police report alleging that she was married to petitioner No. 1/accused No. 1 on 13.02.2021. After marriage, she joined matrimonial home and later became pregnant. Thereafter, petitioner No. 1 allegedly began harassing her both physically and mentally, accusing her of infidelity and denying the paternity of the

child.

Despite these allegations, she gave birth to a female child on

30.08.2022. Even d