HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.1427 OF 2025

ORDER

Heard Mr. Mahesh Mamindla, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs. Shalini Saxena, learned counsel representing Mr. Palle Nageswara Rao, learned Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent No.1 - State.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section - 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.455 of 2024 pending on the file of the Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Cases under Prohibition Act (Excise Court), Hyderabad.

3. The petitioner herein is arraigned as accused No.1 in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against him are under Sections - 186, 353, 427 and 290 read with 34 IPC.

4. On the complaint lodged by respondent No.2 - Tahsildar, Choutuppal Mandal, Police, Choutuppal Police Station have registered a case in Crime No.321 of 2021 against the petitioner and others for the aforesaid offences. As per the report given by respondent No.2, dated 27.07.2021 to the police, the allegations levelled against the petitioner herein are as follows:

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