THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.4593 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’) seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/accused in C.C.No.613 of 2023 on the file of the learned III Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Mahabubnagar, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 354D and 509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘IPC’) and Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act, 2008 (for short, ‘IT Act’).

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 24.07.2023, the de-facto complainant lodged a report before the Police against the petitioner stating that she was married to Mr. Mohammed Iftekar Ahmed in October 2021, and they had a daughter. Due to family disputes, they divorced on 13.03.2023 before their family members and community elders, as per customary practices and since then they have been living separately. Subsequently, the petitioner allegedly extracted voice recordings of her private conversations with friends from her mobile phone and shared them with her relatives and acquaintances, spreading false publicity again