THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI Criminal Petition No.3755 of 2025

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter ‘the BNSS’), challenging the order dated 21.01.2025 passed in Criminal Revision Petition No. 207 of 2024, arising out of Crl.M.P. No. 3269 of 2024 in Crime No. 223 of 2024 of Gandhi Nagar Police Station, Secunderabad, on the file of the X Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Secunderabad.

2. I have heard Mr. V.V.S. Satyanarayana, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, representing the respondent No.1-State.

3. The petitioner is the de facto complainant.

4. Briefly stated, the relevant facts are that the petitioner/de facto complainant lodged a police report alleging that she had come across certain promotional posters on an Instagram account and, upon making contact, engaged the individuals behind the account to perform a puja for the improvement of her mother’s health. Initially, she transferred an amount of Rs.5,000. However, she was later informed that the ritual could not be performed due to a severe dosham (spiritual afflic