THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.13172 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioners/accused Nos.2 to 8 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.174 of 2024 on the file of learned IV Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Medchal-malkajgiri District at Uppal, at LB Nagar.

2. Heard Mr.Prashanth Gadipe, learned counsel for petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the matter is purely civil in nature and that the petitioners have neither created any documents nor attempted to unlawfully claim the property of the de facto complainant, as alleged. He further submits that the contents of the complaint do not disclose the ingredients necessary to attract the offences alleged against the petitioners herein. It is contended that the de facto complainant, in an attempt to settle scores in the civil dispute, has filed this false complaint with the intention of implicating the petitioners. He, therefore, prayed t