THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 4732 OF 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C.No. 3003 of 2019 on the file of the learned II Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Khammam, Khammam District.

2. The petitioner is sole accused in the Calendar Case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 182 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘the IPC’) and Sections 10, 11, 12 of SC/ST/BC Regulation of Issue Community Certificate Act-16/1993 read with Rules, 1997.

3. I have heard Mr.V.V.Rama Krishna, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing respondent No.1-State.

4. The prosecution's case, in brief, is that the petitioner/accused allegedly made a false declaration regarding his caste status and consequently obtained a fraudulent caste certificate. Following an official inquiry, the District Collector of Khammam, through Proceedings No. D3/3160/2008 dated 16.03.2011, annulled the said caste certificate and rec