IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.6967 OF 2024 DATE: 25.03.2026 Between :

Chittibotla Bharadwaja Sharma and three others.

… Petitioner AND The State of Telangana Through PS KPHB Cyberabad rep By the Public Prosecutor HighCourt Buildings High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents.

O R D E R:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “the BNSS”), seeking quashment of the proceedings in P.R.C. No.12 of 2024 on the file of the IV Additional Junior Civil Judge-cum-XV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Medchal–Malkajgiri District at Kukatpally.

2. Heard Smt. Y. Ratna Prabha, learned counsel for the petitioners, and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1–State.

3.1. Briefly stated, the case of the prosecution is that respondent No.2/defacto complainant came into contact with accused No.1 in October, 2007 through a mutual acquaintance, and their relationship subsequently developed with discussions of marriage. It is alleged that accused No.1, on the promise of marriage, obtained financial ass