HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.7438 OF 2025

ORDER

Heard Ms. L.Pranathi Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner 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 petitioner to quash the proceedings in C.C. No.287 of 2024 pending on the file of Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for trial of Cases relating to MPs and MLAs at Hyderabad.

3. The petitioner herein is arraigned as accused No.1 in the aforesaid C.C. The offences alleged against him are under Sections - 188, 285 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code (for short, ‘the IPC’) Section 51 (1)(b) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 ( for short, ‘the DM Act’) and Section 3(1) of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 ( for short, ‘the ED Act’).

4. The case of the prosecution is that on 18.06.2021, 2^nd respondent lodged a complaint with the Sub Inspector of Police, P.S. Kamalapur (L.W.5) stating that on 08.06.2021 at about 9.30 A.M., while he along with other staff, was on bandobusth duty, Sri Etala Rajender, an MLA of Huzurnagar Assembly Con