HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.6885 of 2025

ORDER

Heard Sri M.Ajay Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Arun Kumar Dodla, learned Additinal Public Prosecutor for respondents.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/A3 in C.C.No.35 of 2025 pending on the file of Excise Court, Manoranjan Complex, Hyderabad (transferred from Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Parkal).

3. Petitioner herein is A3 in the said C.C. The offences alleged against the petitioner herein are under Section 188 of IPC and Section 4 of the [Telangana] Prevention of Disfigurement of Open Places and Prohibition of Obscene and Objectionable Posters and Advertisements Act, 1997 (for short ‘the Act’). On the complaint lodged by the 2nd respondent, Police, P.S.Parkal registered a case in Crime No.349 of 2023 on 24.11.2023 against the petitioner and other accused. In the said compliant, the 2^nd respondent has specifically alleged that he is Divisional Panchayat Officer, Hanamakonda and Model Code of Conduct In- charge (104). On 24.11.2023, at about 10.3