Telangana High Court
CRLP/17959/2025 of Vaseem khan alias Wassem Khan Vs The State of Telangana, on 31 December 2025
COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY. IHE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER TVVO THOUSAi'lD AtlD I,/VENTY F|VE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 17959 OF 2025 Between: Vaseem khan @ Wassem Khan, S/o Abdul Gaffar Khan, Age 34 Years Occ.
IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA
AT HYDERABAD
WEDNESDAY. IHE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER
TVVO THOUSAi'lD AtlD I,/VENTY F|VE
PRESENT
THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA
CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 17959 OF 2025
Between:
Vaseem khan @ Wassem Khan, S/o Abdul Gaffar Khan, Age 34 Years Occ.
Business, R/o H No. 2-1 14, Gudihatnoor, Adilabad, Adilabad District
...PETITIONER/ACCUSED
AND
1. The State of Telangana, rep.by Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad
2. Manish Doli, S/o. Babu. Age 29 years, Occ: Police Officer, R/o. Shampur, Utnoor Mandal, Adilabad District.
..RESPONDENT/DEFACTO COMPLAINANT
Petition under Section 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the [Vlemorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to quash the proceedings against the Petitioner/Accused in. FlR.No.
335 of 2025 on the file of Gudihatnoor Police Station, Adilabad District
l.A. NO:2OF 2025
Petition under Section 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of criminal Petition, the High court may be pleased to stay all further proceedings including the arrest of the petitioner in cr No . 335 0t 2025 0n the file of Gudihatnoor Police station, Adilabad District during the pending disposal of above Criminal petition This Petition comtng on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of sri soMA RAVI
KIRAN REDDY, Advocate for the Petitioner and SRI JITHENDER RAO
VEERAMALLA, Additional Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent No 1
and None Appeared for the Respondent No.2
The Court made the following: ORDER
IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELATI iANA AT
HYDERABAD
THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA
CRIMINAL PETITION No.17959 of 2o25
Date: 31 .12.2025
Between:
Vaseem Khan @ Wassem Khan
iretitioner
AND
The State of Telangana,
Rep. by Public Prosecutor,
High Court for the State of Telananga at Hyderabad a rd another Rr: oondents
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ORDER
This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for shor 'BNSS') by the petitioner/accused seeking to quash the proceec ngs against him in Crime No.335 of 2025 on the file of Gudihe noor Police Station, Adilababad District, registered for the alleg :d offences punishable under Section 223 of Bharatiya Nyaya Il rnhita, 2023 (for short 'BNS') and Section 219 of Telangana Pz rchayat Raj Act,2018 (for short'the Act').
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2. Heard Mr.Soma Ravi Kiran Reddy, learned counsel for the pelitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1.
3. Though this petition is filed for quashing the proceedings in the crime, during the course of arguments, learned counsel for petitioner has sought for directions to the Police to proceed with investigation by issuing notice under Section 35(3) of BNSS (Previously Section 41-A of Cr.P,C.)
4. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor has not disputed the same
5. Considering the submissions of both the counsel and on perusal of the material available on record, it is seen that the allegations are under Section 223 of BNS and Section 219 of the Act and the punishment prescribed for the said offences alleged against the petitioner is less than seven (07) years. Hence, without going into the merits of the case, this Court deems it appropriate to direct the petitioner to appear before the lnvestigating Officer on or before 28.01 .2026 between 11:00 a.m and 05:00 p.m. and in turn, the lnvestigating Officer is directed to follow the procedure laid down under Section 35 (3) of the BNSS \i\
D1D,J rl.P 17959 2025 (previously section 41-A of Criminal Procedure Co: r, 1973) and also the guidelines formulated by the Hon'ble Supr ,me Court of lndia in Arnesh Kumar v. State of Biharl ;crupulously. However, the petitioner shall submit his defense at'j co-operate with the lnvestigating Officer as and when requirerl ly furnishing information and produce all relevant documents/mzr' .;rial required for the purpose of the investigation and the lnves.i lating Oflicer shall consider the same and shall complete tht: investigation strictly in accordance with law.
6. lf the petitioner fail to appear before thtr lnvestigating Officer, within the stipulated time, the lnvestigat rg Officer is entitled to take steps in accordance with law. 7 . With the above said observations, this Crin i ral Petition is disposed of. As a sequel, the miscellaneous petitions pe lding, if any, shall stand closed. Sd/. K. MADHAVI ; STANT REGISTRAR lcaor+) B :,.;3 {+3 /iTRUE COPY//
1. The Station House Officer, Gudihatnoor Poltce Station Adilabad District 2 One CC to SRI SOMA RAVI KIRAN REDDY Advocate I
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HIGH COURT DATED: 3111212025
ORDER
CRLP.No.17959 ot 2025 DISPOSING THE CRIMINAL PETITION 1$ tli itflt z''? '
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