IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.64 of 2026 Date: 07.01.2026 Between:

Palivela Ravikumar and three others ...Petitioners AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, Through S.H.O. Bhadrachalam Town Police Station, Bhadradri Kothagudem District and another ...Respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioners/accused Nos.1 to 4 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in S.C.No.143 of 2025 on the file of learned Principal Sessions Judge, Bhadradri Kothagudem.

2. Heard Sri Mummaneni Srinivasa Rao, learned counsel for petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the alleged offence is stated to have been committed in the year 2019 and that, even according to the averments in the complaint, the alleged continuation of the offence was only up to six months prior to the lodging of the complaint. At that point in time, the