THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.5176 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioner in S.C.Spl.No.122 of 2024 on the file of the Special Sessions Judge for Trial of Cases under SCs & STs (POA) Act - cum - VII Additional District and Sessions Judge, Khammam, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 294(b), 323 and 324 read with 34 of IPC and Section 3(1)(r)(s), 3(2)(Va) of SC/ST POA Act, 1989 and amendment Act, 2015(1) of 2016.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 26.05.2024 respondent No.2/de facto complainant lodged a complaint before the police station stating that on the same day at about 2:15 PM, he attended the "Annaprasana" function of Racharla Nagendra's son at Amma Function Hall, Peddamagudi. After the function, as he was leaving the venue, he noticed that Mallu Jyothibasu Thallapalli Raju Gowd, Shettipalli Pranaykumar, and Sk. Yakub, all residents of Hamali Colony, were physically assaulting Vallabaneni Shiva Prasad and Sajja Srinivasa Rao by beating and kicking them. When the complainant tried to intervene and questioned them, Jyothibasu became angry, abused him in filthy