ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 582 of the Bharatiya

Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘the BNSS’) by the petitioners/respondent Nos.2 to 7 to quash the proceedings against them in D.V.C.No.5 of 2024 pending on the file of Additional Judicial First Class

Magistrate at Sanga Reddy.

2. Heard Sri P.Bose Babu, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Arun Kumar Doddla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent

No.1 – State. Perused the record.

3. In the light of the judgment in Gaddameedi Nagamani v. State of Telangana¹ a petition to quash the proceedings in Domestic Violence Case is not maintainable, as Section 29 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 affords an efficacious remedy by way of an appeal against

the act of the Court below in taking cognizance and numbering the D.V.C.

4. In view of the above, the petitioners are at liberty to avail the said

alternative remedy.

5. However, in view of the request made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the appearance of the petitioner Nos.1 to 6 herein/respondent Nos.2 to 7 in D.V.C.No.5 of 2024 pending on the file of Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Sanga Reddy, is dispensed with, except on the dates whenever their presence is required by the trial Court, and they shall

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be represented by their counsel on every date of hearing and in case of default, this order gets vacated automatically.

6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of.

Miscellaneous applications, if any pending, shall also stand closed.

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