HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.5133 OF 2025

ORDER

Heard Ms. Sahithi Sri Kavya Mukkera, learned counsel for the petitioners - accused Nos.1 and 4 and Mr. Palle Nageswara Rao, learned Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of the respondents.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section - 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.470 of 2023 pending on the file of the Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Cases under Prohibition Act (Excise Court), Hyderabad.

3. The petitioners herein are arraigned as accused Nos.1 and

4 respectively in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against them are under Sections - 143, 147, 341 and 290 read with 149 of IPC.

4. On the complaint dated 19.01.2021 lodged by respondent No.2 - Sub-Inspector of Police, Saifabad Police Station, Hyderabad, Police, Saifabad Police Station have registered a case in Crime No.38 of 2021 against the petitioners herein and others for the aforesaid offences.

5. In the complaint, the allegations levelled against the petitioners herein are as follows:

i) Pursuant to the Call given by the All India Congress Committee (AICC), on 19.