THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO + CRIMINAL PETITION No.6444 OF 2023 % Dated 23.10.2025 # Parayitam Anand Sharma S/o.Vishnumurthy, Aged: 66 years, Occ: Purohit, R/o.Singampally Village, Amangal Mandal, Ranga Reddy District R/o.H.No.1-22, KDR College, Amangal, Ranga Reddy District.

….Petitioner VERSUS $ The State of Telangana Rep. by P.P., High Court at Hyderabad, Through P.S. Amangal, Ranga Reddy district and another … Respondents ! Counsel for Petitioner : Mr. Palle Srinivasa Reddy ^ Counsel for Respondents : Mr. G. Chandra Shekar (R.2)

Mr. M. Vivekananda Reddy Assistant Public Prosecutor (R.1)

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? CITATIONS:

1. (2007) 12 SCC 1

2. (2020) 10 SCC 710 3. (2023) 17 SCC 615

4. 2025 SCC OnLine All 1512

5. (2022) 15 SCC 164

6. (2002) 9 SCC 147 7. (2000) 3 SCC 557 8. (2013) 9 SCC 245 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 6444 of 2023

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, by the petitioner/accused seeking to quash the proceedings in SC.SPL.No.256 of 2022 on the file of the VII Additional District Judge-cum-Sessions Court for the trial of SC/ST Cases, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar, registered for the offence punishable under Section 3(1)(r)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 2015 (for short, ‘the Act’).

2. Brief facts of the case:

Respondent No.2/de facto complainant lodged a complaint on 04.06.2021 stating that his father, Chintakindi Laxmaiah, purchased the land to an extent of Ac.3.15 gts. in Sy.Nos.32, 33 and 73 from the petitioner through a plain paper (sada bainama) for total sale consideration of Rs.1,20,000/- and he paid the said amount by way of installments and he has been in possession of the said land and operating agricultural operations. He further stated that he and his father approached the petitioner and requested him to execute the registered sale deed, but he refused to register sale deed and that the petitioner filed O.S.No.345 of 2020 before the Junior Civil Judge’s Court at Kalwakurthy against him and his father. On 05.05.2021, he along with some of his villagers went to the petitioner and asked him to execute registered sale deed by showing sada binama and the petitioner stated that he did not alienate the land and abused him in the name of his caste. Basing on the said complaint, F.I.R.No.103 of 2021 was registered against the petitioner. The Investigating Officer after conducting investigation filed charge sheet on 09.09.2021 before the VII Additional District and Sessions Judge-cum-SC/STs Court at Mahabubnagar and the said Court was transferred to the Court of VII Additional District Judge-cum-Sessions Court for trial of SC/ST, Ranga Reddy District, and renumbered it as SC.SPL.No.256 of 2022.

3. Heard Mr. A. Giridhar Rao, learned Senior Counsel, representing Mr. Palle Srinivasa Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Mahesh Mamindla, learned counsel, representing Mr. G. Chandra Shekar, learned counsel appearing for respondent No.2, and Mr. M. Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent No.1-State.

4. Submissions of learned counsel for the petitioner:

4.1. Learned Senior Counsel submitted that the petitioner has not committed the offence and he has not abused respondent No.2 in the name of his caste and he was falsely implicated by making allegations in the complaint with an intention to harass him and also to dissolve civil disputes pending between them. He further submitted that according to the complaint, the alleged incident occurred on 05.05.2021, however, respondent No.2 lodged the complaint on 04.06.2021, after lapse one month, without giving any reasons for the said delay.

4.2. He further submitted that even according to the allegations made in the complaint and the charge sheet, the father of respondent No.2 had not initiated any proceedings seeking enforcement of the said sada sale deed by appro