THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.4207 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner/accused No.1, seeking anticipatory bail in PRC No. 260 of 2024 on the file of the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad (Crime No. 243 of 2024 of Panjagutta Police Station, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 166, 409, 427, 201, 120(B) read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’), Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 (for short ‘PDPP Act’) and Sections 65, 66, 66(F)(1)(B)(2) and 70 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (for short ‘I.T.Act’).

2. The case of prosecution in brief is that on 10.03.2024 at 13.45 hours Sri D.Ramesh, Additional Superintendent of Police, Special Investigation Branch (SIB), Telangana State, Hyderabad lodged English written complaint in which he reported that during his tenure, the accused person D.Praneeth Kumar @ Praneeth Rao joined SIB as an Inspector in 2018 and got accelerated promotion as Deputy Superintendent of Police in

2023. He came to know t