THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.15478 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner-accused seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.1615 of 2025 on the file of XIV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Ranga Reddy District at Hayathnagar, registered for the offences under Sections 319(2) and 318(4) of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNS”), Section 20(ii) read with 22 of Telangana Medical Practitioners Registration (for short ‘TMPR’) Act,1968 and Section 34 of National Medical Commission Act, 2019 (for short ‘NMCA’).

2. The case of the prosecution is that the petitioner is a registered Homeopathy Medical Practitioner vide Registration No.APMC/FMR/7630. It is alleged that the petitioner is practicing Allopathy medicine, though he is qualified in BHMS and that the said act of practicing allopathy medicine attracts the offences under Sections 419 and 420 of IPC and Section 15(2) of the Indian Medical Council Act.

3. Heard the submissions of Sri B.Vamshidhar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Sama Sandeep Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for TMC for respondent No.2 and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Addit