THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO + CRIMINAL PETITION No.11331 of 2023 % Dated 18.09.2025 # Uppu Shirisha @ Mamatha D/o Narsimulu, aged 24 years, occ: Household r/o Balanagar Village and Mandal, Mahabubnagar District and others.

….Petitioners/Accused VERSUS $ The State of Telangana, through S.H.O., Jadcherla Police Station, Mahabubnagar District, rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court, Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents ! Counsel for the petitioners : Mrs. G.Jaya Reddy ^ Counsel for Respondent No.1 : Mr. M.Vivekananda Reddy, Asst.P.P.

Counsel for Respondent No.2 : Mr.K.Venkatesh Guptha < GIST:

> HEAD NOTE: ? CITATIONS:

1. (2025) 4 SCC 801

2. 1995 Supp (3) SCC 731

3. 2024(3) ALD (Crl.) 730 (AP)

4. (2024) 1 SCC 417 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.11331 of 2023

ORDER

This Criminal Petition has been filed under Section

482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘Cr.P.C.’) by the petitioners, who are arrayed as accused Nos.1 to 4, seeking to quash the proceedings in S.C. No.41 of 2024 on the file of the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahabubnagar, for the offence punishable under Section 306 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Brief facts of the case:

2.1. That on 09.09.2022 at 06:00 hours, Anagalla Chinna Jangaiah, de facto complainant, lodged a complaint with the police alleging that he had three sons and a daughter and that all his sons were married. About one year ago, his younger son Srinivasulu, who is an auto driver, married Sirisha, daughter of Uppu Narsimulu. The couple stayed with them for about four months. Thereafter, his daughter-in-law Sirisha took his son to Balanagar stating that they would start some business for their livelihood. Later, Sirisha used to quarrel frequently with his son over petty issues. Sirisha, along with her parents and brother, had also beaten his son Srinivasulu. Then, he, along with his elder son Pedda Jangaiah and his son-in-law Srinu, went to Balanagar and compromised the couple. However, they continued to harass his son.

2.2. It is further averred that about four days ago, when his son informed him over phone about the harassment, he brought his son Srinivasulu back to Kistaram village. On 08.09.2022 at about 17:00 hours, while all of them were chit-chatting with their neighbours, his son Srinivasulu was alone in their house. After some time, when they returned home, they found the doors latched from inside. On observing through the window, they found his son Srinivasulu hanging. Immediately, they removed the body and shifted him to the Government Hospital, Jadcherla, presuming that he might still be alive, but the duty doctors declared him as brought dead. They also found a suicide note in the pocket of his son Srinivasulu. Due to the harassment and beatings of the above persons, his son committed suicide by hanging and he requested to take legal action as per law. Basing upon the said complaint, Crime No.557 of 2022 was registered for the above mentioned offence and the Investigating Officer after conducting investigation filed charge sheet before the learned Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Jadcherla and the same was taken cognizance and numbered as PRC No.10 of 2023 and the petitioners filed the present criminal petition seeking to quash the proceedings in the above PRC. During the pendency of this criminal petition, the case was committed to the Court of Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahabubnagar and numbered as S.C.No.41 of 2024. Hence, the petitioners filed I.A.No.1 of 2025 seeking to amend the case number as S.C.No.41 of 2024 in place of PRC No.10 of 2023 and the same was allowed on

12.09.2025.

3. Heard Mrs. G.Jaya Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners, Mr.K.Venkatesh Guptha, learned counsel for respondent No.2/de facto complainant through video conference and Mr.M.Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, appearing on behalf of respondent No.1-State.

4. Submissions of learned Counsel f