THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER CRIMINAL PETITION No.5775 OF 2025

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of B.N.S.S by the petitioner/accused, to quash the proceedings against him in Crime No.40 of 2025 on the file of the Amrabad Police Station, Nagarkurnool District, registered for the offences under Sections

329(4), 324(2), 118 (1) of BNS.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri M.Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the respondent – State. Perused the record.

3. Respondent No.2 herein has lodged a complaint against the petitioner herein alleging that the petitioner has injured the respondent No.2 by trespassing into his hotel and attacked him with stones and damaged the furniture, bike etc., and therefore, he lodged a complaint, under sections 329(4), 324(2), 118 (1) of BNS.

4. Initially, the case was registered under Section 118(1) of BNS which is punishable up to three years. But according to the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor when the medical certificate was received, the section was altered to Section 118(2) of BNS.

5. Section 118(1) of BNS reads as follows:

“Section 118(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 202