THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER CRIMINAL PETITION No.4956 OF 2025

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner/accused No.4, seeking to quash proceedings in S.C.No.317 of 2024, on the file of the learned Senior Civil Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Medhcal-Malkajgiri District.

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

3. The petitioner herein is arrayed as A-4 in the charge sheet filed by the Police for the offences under Sections 370A of IPC and Sections 3, 4, and 5 of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, (for short ‘the Act’). According to the case of the prosecution, on 20.05.2021 at about 14:00 hours, upon receiving information that brothel house is being run in KPHB Colony, Sub-Inspector of Police, along with his staff, went to the place and found that A1 and A2 were involved in prostitution. A-3 and A4 were the persons, who were found at the scene with a woman. The only allegation against this petitioner is that he was found in the premises with a woman.

4. Section 370 of IPC reads as under:

“(1)Whoever, for the purpose of exploitation, (