HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.7543 OF 2025

ORAL ORDER

Heard Mr. P. Shashi Kiran, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Dodla Arun Kumar, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for 1^st respondent.

2. The present Criminal Petition is filed under Section - 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNSS’) to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.32 of 2025 pending on the file of the Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Trial of Cases relating to M.Ps and MLAs, Hyderabad. The petitioners herein are Accused Nos.1, 3 to 11 in the said C.C.No.32 of 2025. The offences alleged against the petitioners herein are punishable under Sections 143 and

188 read with Section 149 of IPC.

3. As per the complaint dated 15.11.2021 of 2^nd respondent, the allegations leveled against the petitioners herein are that 1^st petitioner along with the other petitioners on 15.11.2021 at 12 noon, without following guidelines issued by the State Government with regard to COVID-19, went to Arjalabavi IKP Centre, Nalgonda District and examined the paddy, spoke to the farmers and conducted press meet.

Thus, the petitioners have violated the Model of Code of Conduct.