THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.9780 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.178 of 2025 on the file of P.S. Cyberabad, Gachibowli, registered for the offences under Sections 69, 318(4), 117(1), 351(2) of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNS, 2023”).

2. Heard the submissions of Smt. Anuraadha Chakravarthy, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1 – State.

3. The learned petitioner counsel has submitted that the allegations under Section 69 BNS does not get attracted in the present case and that it was a consensual relationship. Therefore, it cannot be treated as an offence under Section 69 of the BNS. He further submitted that there is no element of cheating, much less to attract the offence under Section 318(4) of the BNS. Therefore, prayed to quash the proceedings against the petitioner.

4. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor has submitted that the criminal petition filed by the petitioner herein on an earlier occasion got dismissed vide orders dated 28.03.2025 in Crl.P.No.4287 of