IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SMT.JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA Date:06.01.2026 Between:

Ailaboina Kantha Rao and 7 others …Petitioners/Accused And State of Telangana, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana, Hyderabad and another.

... Respondents

ORDER:

This criminal petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioners-accused in Case No.CC/0001233/2025 on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Mahabubabad, for the offences under Sections 20(1) c(ii) (iii) (iv) and (vii) read with 20(1)(d)(i) of Telangana State Forest Act, 1967 (for short ‘Forest Act’) and Section 3(1) read with 2(a)(b) of the Prevention of Damage of Public Property Act, 1984.

2. Heard Mr. T.V. Ramesh, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondents.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners are the pattadars and that the present complaint filed by the forest officials is based on false allegations and that the petitioners never encroached the forest land, nor destroyed any forest or government prop