HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.7938 OF 2025

ORDER

Heard Sri Amruth Rao Jookanti, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Arun Kumar Dodla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for State.

2. The present criminal petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 ( for short, ‘ the BNSS’) by the petitioners to quash the proceedings in Cr.No.386 of 2025 pending on the file of Station House Officer, Mancherial Town Police Station, Ramagundam Commissionerate, Mancherial District.

3. The petitioners are arraigned as accused Nos.1 to 30 in the aforesaid Crime. The offences alleged against them are under Sections 189 (2), 126 (2), 132 read with Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNS’). On the complaint dated 21.06.2025 lodged by the 2^nd respondent, Police Mancherial Town, have registered the subject crime.

4. In the complaint dated 21.06.2025, 2^nd respondent alleged that on 20.06.2025, while 2^nd respondent - Head Constable-1972 of Mancherial Police Station along with staff performing patrolling duty at Bellampalli chowrastha area, at about 11.10 a.m., the petitioners herein along with some others,