HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.166 OF 2025

ORDER

Heard Mr. T.V. Ramana Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs. Shalini Saxena, learned counsel representing Mr. Palle Nageswara Rao, learned Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent No.1 - State.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section - 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.268 of 2024 pending on the file of the Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Cases under Prohibition Act (Excise Court), Hyderabad.

3. The petitioner herein is the sole accused in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against him are under Sections 171-C & 171-F read with 188 and 506 of IPC and Section - 123 (2) of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (for short ‘R.P. Act’).

4. On the complaint lodged by respondent No.2, MCC Nodal Officer, Kamalapur (MPDO, Kamalapur), Sub-Inspector of Police, Kamalapur Police Station, registered a case in Crime No.247 of 2023 against the petitioner for the aforesaid offences. As per the report given by respondent No.2, dated 29.11.2023 to the police, the allegations levelled against the petitioner here