HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.3717 of 2026 Date: 07.04.2026 Between:

Vangala Venkata Srinivas Rao ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 AND The State of Telangana, Rep by its Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad and another.

...Respondents : O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition has been filed by the petitioner/accused No.2 seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.16 of 2026 on the file of the I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate at Khammam, for the offence under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘the BNS’).

2. Brief facts of the case Respondent No.2 lodged a complaint stating that he conducted a search of the Xerox shop of accused No.1 and found blank bond papers bearing the signature of the petitioner. He further stated that accused No.1 used to pay Rs.60/- per bond to the petitioner and sold the same in the market for Rs.250/- per bond paper. It is also stated that 36 such bond papers were seized.

3. Heard Mr. C. Sharan Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, appearin