THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI Criminal Petition No.14511 of 2024

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’) challenging the order dated 18.11.2024 passed in Crl.M.P.No.1225 of 2024 in M.C.No.3 of 2020 on the file of the I Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Kodad.

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

C.Kumar, learned counsel for the respondent Nos.2 and 3.

3. The relevant facts, in brief, are that the respondents No.2 and 3, i.e., the wife and daughter of the present petitioner, initiated maintenance proceedings by filing M.C. No. 3 of 2020 before the Court of the I Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Kodad. During the pendency of that matter, they filed an interlocutory application seeking to introduce certain documents obtained from Sessions Case No. 170 of 2020. The trial court, relying on the precedent established in Bipin Shantilal Panchal v. State of Gujarat and Another, (2001) 3 SCC 1, permitted the documents to be rec