IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.12461 OF 2024 DATE: 13.03.2026 Between :

Mr. Namani Vasudevulu and another … Petitioners AND The State of Telangana Rep by Public Prosecutor High Court for the State of Telangana 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 ‘BNSS’) seeking quashment of the charge sheet against the petitioners/accused No.2 and 3 in C.C. No.521 of 2020 pending on the file of Judicial First Class Magistrate-

cum-Special Mobile judge at Nalgonda.

2. Heard Mr. Papaiah Peddakula, learned Counsel for the petitioners and Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1.

3. The petitioners, who are arrayed as accused Nos.2 and 3, seek quashment of the proceedings arising out of a private complaint filed by respondent No.2/defacto complainant, which has been registered for the alleged offences punishable under Sections 406, 417, and 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).

4.1. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that, pursuant to a Court referred co