IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD Between:

Smt.Chaganti Padmavathi and three others ...Petitioners AND The State of Telangana, Represented by Public Prosecutor, High Court of Telangana at Hyderabad and another ...Respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioners/accused Nos.2 to 5 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.5094 of 2025 on the file of learned II Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Malkajgiri.

2. Heard Sri V.Ramesh, learned counsel for petitioners and Sri Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners restricted his arguments to the extent of dispensing with the presence of the petitioners before the trial court.

4. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor has submitted to pass appropriate orders.

5. Perused the record.

6. However, in view of the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the presence of the petitioners before the trial court is dispensed with provided that they are represented by a counsel before the tri