IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.16128 of 2025 Date: 05.12.2025 Between:

Sanketh Konduri ...Petitioners AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Telangana, Hyderabad and another ...Respondents

Order

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.06 of 2025, on the file of the Cyber Crime Police Station, Siddipet, for the offences punishable under Sections 192, 353(1)(b), 352 and 356 r/w 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2008 (for short ‘IT Act’).

2. Heard Mr.P.Siddharth, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has not committed any offence and his name was not mentioned in the complaint. However, the Investigating Officer issued notice under Section 41-A of Cr.P.C./Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNSS’) on 18.11.2025. Pursuant to the same, peti