THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER CRIMINAL PETITION No.5865 OF 2025

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNSS”) by the petitioner/accused No.5, aggrieved by the charge sheet in C.C.No.11818 of 2024 on the file of the VII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, at Nampally, Hyderabad and to quash the same. The offences alleged against him are under Section 420 r/w Section 511 of IPC, and Section 80 (a) and Section 177 of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 (for short ‘the Act’).

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 brief facts of the case are that the Sub-Inspector of Police lodged a complaint against the accused stating that, when he, along with his staff, were conducting vehicle check at Moosarambagh X road, they stopped the two-wheeler vehicles which were not having number plates. When they questioned the accused, the accused stated that the vehicle owners had registered their vehicles but did not install number plates intentionally, which amounts to violating the traffic rules and avoiding traf