THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N. TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.9425 of 2025

ORDER:

This petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’) seeking quashment of the proceedings in C.C.No.8824 of 2024 pending on the file of the learned II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Nampally, Hyderabad.

2. The brief facts of the case are that, Respondent No. 2, a Head Constable, lodged a complaint against the accused, stating that while he, along with his staff, was conducting vehicle checks at Putlibowli Junction, Hyderabad, they stopped three two-wheeler vehicles being driven by the accused, each without a number plate. Upon questioning the drivers regarding the absence of number plates, the accused gave evasive and hasty responses. Consequently, Respondent No. 2 seized the vehicles and brought both the vehicles and the accused to the police station. Thereafter, a case was registered as Crime No. 316 of 2024 for offences punishable under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, Section

80(a) of the relevant Act, and Section 177 of the Motor Vehicles Act.

3. I have heard Mr.Mohd Omerullah Shareef, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr.Jithend