HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.152 AND 5696 OF 2025

COMMON ORDER

Heard Mr. N. Naveen Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners - accused Nos.1, 2 & 4 and Mrs. Shalini Saxena, learned counsel representing Mr. Palle Nageswara Rao, learned Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of the respondents.

2. Criminal Petition No.152 of 2025 is filed by accused Nos.1 and 2 under Section - 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.7169 of 2024 pending on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, while Criminal Petition No.5696 of 2025 is filed by accused No.4 to quash the proceedings against him in the aforesaid C.C.

3. The petitioners herein are arraigned as accused Nos.1, 2 and 4 respectively in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against them are under Sections - 171B read with 171E and 188 read with 109 of IPC.

4. On the complaint lodged by respondent No.2 - Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police, Amberpet Police Station, Hyderabad, the Police have registered a case in Crime No.333 of 2024 against the petitioners herein and another for the aforesaid offences.

5. As per the repor