HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 16007 of 2025 DATE: 10.03.2026 Between :

Bandari Sampath ....Petitioner/Accused AND The State of Telangana, Represented by Public Prosecutor, Hon’ble High Court for the Stage of Telangana, Hyderabad, and another ....Respondents : O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition has been filed aggrieved by the order passed by the learned Special Sessions Judge for Trial of Cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (I-Additional Sessions Judge), Hanumakonda (for short, ‘the learned Sessions Judge’) in Crl.M.P.No.708 of 2025 in Sessions Case (POCSO) No.25 of 2024 dated 28.11.2025, whereunder the application filed by the petitioner seeking for recall of PWs.1, 2 and 11 for the purpose of further cross-examination was dismissed.

2. Brief facts of the case :

2.1. On 21.03.2024, respondent No.2/de facto complainant lodged a complaint before KUC Police Station stating that due to matrimonial disputes with her first husband, she was residing at her parental house at Beemaram, Hanumakonda, during the year 2018, the petitioner, who was then working at Wardhannapet, came in