THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.11027 OF 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner – accused No.1 seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR No.1292 of 2025 on the file of P.S. Cyberabad, Hyderabad, registered for the offences under Sections 66-C, 66-E ITA-2000-2008 and Section 318(4), 338 read with 3 (5) of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNS, 2023”) and Section 63, 65 of the CA Act.

2. Heard the submissions of Sri T. V. Ramana Rao, 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 two FIR’s are being lodged against the same incident which is not maintainable in the eye of law and that it amounts to double jeopardy and that the same set of facts are alleged in both the complaints and the parties are also the same. He further submitted that it is alleged that the petitioner has pirated the video of Kubera Film and that the petitioner has not committed any such offence as alleged by the de-facto complainant. He further submitted that registration of two FIR’s based on the same set of fa