THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.13330 and 13334 of 2025

ORDER:

These Criminal Petitions are filed under Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner/de facto complainant seeking to quash the orders passed in Crl.M.P.Nos.178 and 179 of 2025 in S.C.No.98 of 2023 on the file of Senior Civil Judge-cum-Assistant Sessions Judge, at Godavarikhani, dated 09.09.2025.

2. Heard Mr.K.Venumadhav, learned counsel for petitioner and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the prosecution was able to locate the phone belonging to PW3, which could not be produced as evidence at the time of filing the charge sheet. Subsequently, the said phone was discovered, and the evidence ought to have been produced before the trial Court, as it is important and crucial to establish the offence against the accused. However, the trial Court dismissed the request, causing grave prejudice to the case of the de facto complainant. He, therefore, prays that the impugned orders be set aside and that the prosecution be permitte