THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR JUKANTI CRIMINAL PETITION No.6401 OF 2025

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (for short ‘BNSS’) by petitioner to set aside the docket order, dated 27.12.2024, passed in Crl.M.P.No.131 of 2024 in MC.No.174 of 2023 on the file of the Judge, Family Court, Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar.

2. Heard Mr. B. Nageshwar Rao, learned counsel for petitioner, Mr. Surepalli Prashanth, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1 – State and Mr. P. Madhukar, learned counsel for respondent Nos.2 and 3.

Perused the material on record.

3. Petitioner and respondent No.2 are wife and husband. Their marriage was performed on 26.11.2020 at Yadagirigutta Temple. They were blessed with a child and lived together (in joint family) at Khairtabad, Hyderabad. It is the case of respondent No.2 that differences arose between them, that petitioner used to make demands and beat her for additional dowry. As there was no change in petitioner’s behaviour, respondent No.2 lodged a complaint against him. On the basis of complaint, an FIR bearing No.436 of 2021 came to be registered under Section 498A of th