THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.14145 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 and 2 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.369 of 2025 of O.U. City Police Station, Hyderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 79, 351(2) and 352 read with 3(5) BNS and 66D of Information Technology Act, 2008. 2. Heard Sri P. Pratap, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that respondent No.2-de facto complainant has filed second F.I.R. basing on similar set of allegations, which is not tenable in the eye of law. Two F.I.Rs. cannot be lodged with regard to the same incident and same offences against the petitioners. He further submitted that on the earlier complaint, charge sheet has already been filed and the same was taken cognizance by the learned IV Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad, and numbered as C.C.No.6403 of 2025, and in the said case, the mobile phone of petitioner No.1 was seized. Since there is no material in the earlier case