: COMMON ORDER :

These Criminal Petitions have been filed by the petitioners/accused Nos.1 and 2 respectively seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR No.482 of 2026 of Kukatpally Police Station, Cyberabad Commissionerate, for the offences punishable under Sections 69 and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNS’) and Sections 3(2)(v) and 3(1)(r) of the SCs/STs (POA) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the Act’). Hence, both the cases are clubbed together and disposed by way of this common order.

2. Brief facts of the case:

On 01.04.2026 at about 20:15 hours, respondent No.2 lodged the complaint she is a woman constable of the 2020 batch, who had reported for duty at Kukatpally Police Station on 30.12.2020 and was assigned to work as a writer under accused No.1, the then Sub-Inspector of Police, Kukatpally. During her duty, accused No.1 used to contact her personally through frequent calls and messages and, despite her disinterest, followed her and tracked her movements. In 2022, during bandobust duty at Chittaramma Temple, Kukatpally, accused No.1 allegedly took her inside the temple, applied vermilion on her forehead and told that their marriage was completed and forcibly ki