HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No. 4855 of 2025

ORAL ORDER:

Heard Dr.M.P.Kashuyap, learned counsel representing Mr.R.V.Pavan Maitreyi, learned counsel for the petitioner/accused No.3 and Sri Arun Kumar Dodla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1–

State.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/accused No.3 in C.C.No.56 of 2021 on the file of the learned Principal Judicial First Class Magistrate at Siddipet.

3. Petitioner herein is accused No.3 in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against the petitioner are under Sections 143, 341 and 188 of IPC and Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 (for short ‘DM Act, 2005’).

4. On the complaint dated 15.06.2020 of respondent No.2, Police, Siddipet-I Town Police Station, Siddipet District, registered a case in Crime No.242 of 2020 against the petitioner for the aforesaid offences.

5. In the complaint dated 15.06.2020, the allegations leveled against the petitioner are that on 15.06.2020 at about 11.00 a.m. respondent No.2 along with his staff i.e., LWs.2 and 3 constables are conducting