THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.8975 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner – accused seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.39 of 2019 on the file of the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate (for Prohibition & Excise Offences), Nalgonda, registered for the offences under Sections 304-A, 337, 338 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’)

and Section 181 and 196 of the M.V Act.

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

3. The learned petitioner counsel has submitted that the petitioner was not driving the car at the time of alleged accident and that it was driven by one Prashanth who too died in the accident. He further submitted that just to demand money, from the petitioner herein, the de-facto complainant has come up with a false story that he was driving the car at the time of accident. He further submitted that initially 161 Cr.P.C statements were recorded by the Police. The witnesses have stated that it was driven by one Prashanth who died in the accident, but subsequent