THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6967 OF 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioners in Crime No.513 of 2025 of L.B.Nagar Police Station, Rachakonda.

2. The petitioners are arrayed as accused Nos.1 and 2 in Crime No. 513 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 274 and 275 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS, 2023’) and 20(1) 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’).

3. Heard Mr. Y. Bala Murali, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing the respondents.

4. The prosecution case in brief is that the petitioners/accused Nos.1 and 2 are 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.