IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.3282 of 2026 Date: 09.03.2026 Between:

Shiva Shankar Babu ...Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana Through P.S. Chunchupalli and another.

...Respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition has been filed seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.12 of 2026 of Chunchupalli Police Station, Bhadradri Kothagudem District, wherein the petitioner was arrayed as the sole accused for the offences punishable under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and Section 66- D of the Information Technology Act, 2000 – 2008 (for short ‘IT Act’).

2. Heard Ms.K.Aashaya, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has not committed the alleged offence and has been falsely implicated in the present case. Even according to the allegations made in the complaint, the alleged offences took place on 19.06.2025 and 12.08.2025, whereas resp