THE HON’BLE SMT.JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 6 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in FIR No.239 of 2025 on the file of Makloor Police Station, Nizamabad District, registered for the offences under Sections 318(4) and 111 of BNS, 7 of the Essential Commodities Act (for short EC Act’) and Section 17(e) of the Telangana State Public Distribution System (Control)

Order, 2016 (for short ‘Control Order’).

2. Heard Sri G. Raghu, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondents.

3. The case of the prosecution is that on reliable information about illegal transportation of PDS rice at Mamidipally village shivar, the SHO, Makloor rushed to the scene of offence and found to be correct. On his requisition, the Deputy Tahsildar visited the Vaibhav Venkateswara Agro Industries, Mamidipally, along with panchas and conducted confession cum seizure panchanama and perused the crime vehicle bearing No.TS16 UC 6920 loaded with PDS rice. The driver of the crime vehicle confessed that the PDS rice belongs to one Madhanam Yellaiah and Sanjeev, and