IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.15375 OF 2024

01^st May, 2026 Between:

Talugula Harika …Petitioner AND The State of Telangana and Another …Respondents

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS”) seeking quashment of the proceedings against the petitioner/accused in C.C. No. 4517 of 2024 dated 03.12.2024, arising out of Crime No. 1109 of 2024 dated 11.10.2024 registered by Police Station L.B. Nagar, presently pending on the file of the II Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent No. 1/State.

3. The petitioner is arrayed as an accused in the above calendar case for the offence punishable under Section 137(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

4. The brief facts, as borne out from the record, are that on 05.10.2024, during the pendency of matrimonial proceedings in O.P. No. 886 of 2024 filed by the petitioner seeking dissolution of marriage, mediation proceedings were conducte