THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7004OF 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of BharatiyaNagarikSurakshaSanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedingsagainst the petitioner in Crime No.714 of 2025 of Hayathnagar Police Station, RachakondaCommissionerate.

2. The petitioner is sole accusedin Crime No.714 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Section 20(2) of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (for short‘COTPA’) and274 & 275of BharatiyaNyayaSanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS, 2023’).

3. Heard Mr. Y.BalaMurali, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing the respondents.

4. The prosecution case in brief is that the petitioner/accused is involved in selling and purchasing the banned Tobacco products and the Police concerned seized the said Tobacco products.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the Coordinate Bench of this Court vide Criminal Petition Nos.3731 and Batch quashed the proceedin