IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.8867 of 2025 DATE: 23.03.2026 BETWEEN:

Nalamada Uthamkumar Reddy …..petitioner/accused No.1 And The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad and another.

…..Respondent/complainant

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/accused No.1 in C.C.No.400 of 2023 on the file of the learned Special Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Excise Cases, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341 and 188 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 18.10.2019 at about 22:00 hours, the complainant M. Nagendar, Inspector of Survey and District Survey Officer, Suryapet, who was then working as MCC–II officer for the Huzurnagar by-election, lodged a complaint stating that on 18.10.2019 at about 20:00 hours a road show was organized at Mattampally village and mandal by leaders of the INC party, including Sri Uttam Kumar Reddy and Sri Revanth Reddy, in support of the party’s candidate Smt. Padmavathi. During