THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL PETITION No.10558 OF 2023

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.46 of 2023 on the file of the learned I Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-IX Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Ranga Reddy District, at Kukatpally, registered under Section 18(a)(iv) r/w. Sl.No.42 of Schedule ‘J’ R/w. Rule 106 which is punishable under Section 27(d) of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (for short, “the Act”) and Rules 1945.

2. Heard Mr.Bhanu Murthy Bala, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.E.Ganesh, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.2-State.

3. The brief facts of the case are that petitioner No.1 Company is the business of manufacturing of drugs and pharmaceutical products, which has WHO-GMP certification. It is stated that petitioner No.1 Company is the manufacturer and supplier of the subject drug “PILE SEAL” ointment under valid License. PILE SEAL ointment is used for the treatment of the internal and external piles. Whileso, respondent No.1 had filed a complaint against the petitioners which was numbered as C.C.No.3628 of 2018 on the file of the learned XIX Metropol