IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.16259 OF 2024

23^rd February, 2026 Between:

B.Santosh Kumar …Petitioner/Accused AND Mohammed Alam and another …Respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS, 2023”) seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner/accused in C.C. No. 184 of 2022 on the file of the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Chevella, Ranga Reddy District.

2. Heard Mr. Praveen Kumar Challa, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. M. Vivekananda Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No.2/State.

3. The petitioner is arrayed as the sole accused in C.C. No. 184 of 2022 and is facing trial for the offence punishable under Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).

4. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that on 05.09.2021 at about 06:00 PM, while the de facto complainant and his staff were on patrolling duty, a car bearing registration No. TS 10 EL 8856 was found parked in a “No Parking Zone.” When the officer took a photograph of the vehicle, the petitione