THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.1852 of 2022

O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. by the petitioners-accused Nos.2 and 3 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in S.T.C.No.1076 of 2021 on the file of the learned XIV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate at Rajendranagar, Cyberabad (for short ‘trial Court’), arising out of Crime No.2008 of 2020 of P.S. Rajendranagar, registered for the offence under Section 160 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Heard Mr. Abhilash Ashrith Bobbili, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mrs. S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondents. Perused the record.

3. The accusation against the petitioners and other accused in the crime is that on 29.11.2020, at about 10.00 hours, at Bethlem Prayer Church, Abhyudaya Nagar, Bandlaguda, a heated argument broke out between accused of party-1 and party-2, each consisting of four individuals belonging to different communal groups. During the altercation, they allegedly used abusive and non-parliamentary language, thereby causing a breach of public peace.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that