THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA

ORDER:

This criminal petition is filed seeking to quash the order dated

18.09.2025 passed in Crl.M.P. No.3401 of 2025 in ECIR/HYZO/42/

2022 on the file of learned Sessions Judge, Hyderabad.

2. Heard Mr. P. Raja Sripathi Rao, learned Senior Counsel representing Mr. Dileep Kumar Bommena, learned counsel on record for the petitioner and Mr. Narender Naik, learned Standing Counsel for the Directorate of Enforcement, representing the respondent. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the date of offence falls prior to the amendment of Cr.P.C. i.e. the crime number itself denotes that it occurred in 2022 and thus, provisions of Cr.P.C. are not applicable and recourse cannot be taken to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’). He further submitted that as per Section 167 (2) Cr.P.C., the police custody can be granted only during the period of first fifteen days and not thereafter. The petitioner was remanded to judicial custody on 26.08.2025 till 09.09.2025, the first remand period got completed. It means to say the first fifteen days is over and thus, the police custody cannot be granted after the said peri