HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.1753 OF 2025

ORDER

Heard Mr. Gummala Bhasker Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and Smt. Shalini Saxena, learned counsel representing Sri Palle Nageshwar Rao, learned Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1.

2. The present criminal petition is filed by the petitioners to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.473 of 2023 pending on the file of the I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge at Nampally, Hyderabad.

3. The petitioners herein are arraigned as accused Nos.1 to 21 in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against them are under Sections -143, 147, 341, 447, 152, 188, 269 read with 149 of IPC, Section 51 (1) (b) of Disaster Management Act, 2005 ( for short, ‘DM Act’), and Section 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. The aforesaid Sections are akin to the Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) which are as follows:-

(BNS) which are as follows:-

(BNS) which are as follows:-

(BNS) which are as follows:-

(BNS) which are as follows:-

(BNS) which are as follows:-

152 195 188 223 269 271 339 126

341 126(2)

441 329

447 329 (3)

4. The case of the prosecution is that on 18.06.2021 on credible information that the BJP Member