THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 5014 OF 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C. No.18 of 2021 on the file of the learned Principal Junior Civil Judge-cum-Judicial First Class Magistrate, Devarakonda, Nalgonda District.

2. I have heard Dr.J.Viplav Babu, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing respondent No.1-State.

3. The petitioner is arrayed as accused No.5 in the Calendar Case registered for the offences punishable under Section 269 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 and Section 51(b) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.

4. The prosecution case in brief is that on 01.08.2020, a complaint has been filed that the B.J.P. Party leaders staged protest against the then Telangana Government without any permission and in violation of COVID-19 regulations.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the case filed against the petitioner is false and unfounded. He argues that, even if