IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION Nos.5891 AND 7362 OF 2024 DATE: 06.05.2026 Between :

Crl.P. No.5891 of 2024:

V K Tewari and another.

… Petitioners AND The State of Telangana Rep by its Public Prosecutor, High Court at Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents.

Crl.P. No.7362 of 2024:

SiddharthTewari … Petitioner AND The State of Telangana Rep by its Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad and another.

… Respondents.

COMMON ORDER:

The petitioners, who are accused in the same calendar case, have filed these petitions seeking analogous relief. Both petitions were heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

Crl.P. No. 5891 of 2024

2. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS”), seeking quashment of the proceedings in C.C. No. 215 of 2024 on the file of the Principal Judicial First Class Magistrate at Shadnagar.

3. The petitioners are Accused Nos. 2 and 3, charged with offences punishable under Sections 498-A read with 34 of IPC.

Crl.P. No. 7362 of 2024

4. This Criminal Petition is also filed under Sec