THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.13868 of 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/accused No.3 in C.C.No.6349 of 2020 on the file of IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 188 and

269 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Heard Mr.Khaled Bin Sayeed, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1.

3. The case of the prosecution in brief is that on 30.03.2020, Respondent No.2, Sub-Inspector of Police, P.S. Amberpet, Hyderabad, lodged a report stating that while performing lockdown enforcement duty at 6 Number X Roads Check Post, Amberpet, Hyderbad between 09:00 and 14:00 hours, he found several persons violating the lockdown orders issued by the Government of Telangana. The Petitioner was found riding vehicle No. TS08EV-0250 in violation of the said orders and thereby committing acts likely to spread Covid-19 infection.

Basing on the same, a case in Crime No.138/2020 w