IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.2369 of 2024 DATED: 20^th FEBRUARY, 2026 Between M/s. Landmark Hospitals & 2 Others …Petitioners AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad through P.S. Saroornagar, WPS and Another …Respondents

O R D E R

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 3 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.1844 of 2023 pending on the file of the learned XXXII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate at Kukatpally, registered for the offence under Section 18(c) of the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 (for short ‘Act’) punishable under Section 27(b)(ii)

of the Act.

02. Heard Mr. P.Subhash, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 3 and Mr. M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent Nos.1 and 2. Perused the record.

03(a). The brief facts of the case are that on

07.05.2015, the then Drugs Inspector, Balanagar (LW-1), along with LW-2, the then Drugs Inspector, Jinnaram, proceeded to M/s. Landmark Hospitals Medical Stores situated at Cellar, Plot Nos. 1