IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.10879 OF 2022 Date: 16.04.2026 Between:

Nainala Govardhan … Petitioner/

Accused No.1 AND The State of Telangana, Rep by Public Prosecutor, High Court Building, High Court Hyderabad and another … Respondents ::ORDER::

This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioner – accused No.1 seeking to quash the proceedings in SC Spl.No.109 of 2022 on the file of the learned V Additional District Sessions & Special Court for Trial of SC/STs (POA) Act Cases at Adilabad, registered for the offences under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3(1)(r)(s)(u) of the SC/STs (POA) Act, 1989.

2. The case of the de facto complainant is that she is the legally wedded wife of the petitioner herein and that she belongs to an ST community, while the petitioner belongs to a BC community, and that after marriage, he started abusing her in filthy language and, by taking the name of her caste, used to harass her. His family members also used to treat her as a maid in the house, and her sister-in-law used to comment that she belongs to a lower caste and that she cannot stay with th