IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.12677 OF 2024 DATE: 25.03.2026 Between :

Mr. Vikranth Hedeu … Petitioner AND State of Telangana Rep by its Public Prosecutor, PS Miyapurm High Court at Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents.

O R D E R:

I have heard Mr. Thomas George, learned counsel for the petitioner, and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.1-State.

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS”), seeking quashment of the charge sheet in S.C. No. 576 of 2024 pending on the file of the VI Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy at Kukatpally. The petitioner is the sole accused, charged for the offence punishable under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).

3.1. The prosecution case, in brief, is that the petitioner/accused and the deceased were colleagues, and their acquaintance developed into a personal relationship. It is alleged that the petitioner proposed love to the deceased. On 20.09.2019, during a farewell party, the deceased allegedly slipped and sustained an injury to