IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7425 OF 2024 DATE: 24.04.2026 Between :

Mujuba @ Mohammed Misbah Uddin … Petitioner/Accused No.1 AND The State of Telangana, Represented by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, and another.

… Respondents.

ORDER

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“Cr.P.C.”), seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C. No. 4507 of 2021, pending on the file of the learned XXV Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Ranga Reddy District at Rajendranagar.

2. The petitioner is accused No.1 arraigned for the offences punishable under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and Section 7 of Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (E.C. Act, 1955).

3. I have heard Mr. K. Satish Chakravarthy, learned counsel for the petitioner; Mr. M. Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, representing respondent No.1-State.

4.1. The brief facts of the case are that on 23.06.2021 at about 7:50 PM, acting upon credible information regarding the illegal transportation of Public Distributi