THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 9837 OF 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings, against the petitioners/accused Nos.2 and 3 in C.C.No.2369 of 2019 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate-cum-Junior Civil Judge at Nalgonda, Nalgonda District.

2. The petitioners are arrayed as accused Nos.2 and 3 in Calendar Case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 273 of Indian Penal Code and Section 20(2) of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act.

3. Heard Mr.Y.Bala Murali, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing the respondents.

4. The prosecution case in brief is that the petitioners/accused Nos.2 and 3 are involved in selling and purchasing the banned Tobacco products and the Police concerned have seized the said Tobacco products from the possession of the petitioners.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that a Coordinate Bench of this Court vide Criminal Petition Nos.3731 and Batch on considering similar allegations and