IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.8577 OF 2025 DATE: 07-01-2026 Between:

Vardhi Reddy Harsh Vardhan Reddy and another … Petitioners And State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of TS, Hyderabad and another ... Respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 and 2 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in Crime No.1971 of 2024 of Gachibowli Police Station, Cyberabad, registered for the offences under Sections 78(2), 308(5) and 351(4) of BNS and Section 67E of the Information Technology Act.

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

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that petitioner No.1-accused No.1 completed B.Tech. and petitioner No.2-accused No.2 is a software engineer and that the petitioners are innocent and have not committed any offence to attract the ingredients of Section 78 (2) of BNS or the other offences as alleged in the complaint. He further submitted that it was only a consensual relationship betw