THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.14395 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.18 seeking to quash the proceedings against him in C.C.No.484 of 2023 on the file of learned II Metropolitan Magistrate for Railways at Secunderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 147, 145(b), 145(c), 146 and 174(a) of Railways Act, 1989.

2. Heard Sri Atla Abhinandan Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri N.Bhujanga Rao, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India, for the respondents.

3. The case of the prosecution is that on 17.06.2022, the unemployed youth and army job aspirants, organized ‘Rail Roko Agitation’ at Secunderabad Railway Station with a demand to cancel the “Agnipath Scheme” launched by the Central Government for short service recruitment in the Indian Army; that about 1000 to 1500 youth by carrying flags, banners and rods entered into Secunderabad Railway Station by track and by over-throwing the gate-duty bandobusth staff, obstructing railway employees in discharging their duties; that the youth shouted slogans against the Central Government Policies, ransacked and damaged huge quantity of railway pr