Syed Yahiya v. The State Of T.S.
IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA
AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.15199 OF 2025 05th DAY OF DECEMBER 2025 Between :
Syed Yahiya & two others ...
Petitioners/A.2 to A.4 And The State of Telangana, Rep., by its Public Prosecutor, High Court to Telangana at Hyderabad ...
Respondent
ORDER
This criminal petition is filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, by the petitioners/A.2 to A.4 seeking anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.824 of 2025 of Jagadgirigutta Police Station, Cyberabad. The offence alleged against the petitioners is under Sections 89 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
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The case of the prosecution is that the defacto complainant lodged a complaint before police on 12.08.2025 wherein she stated that she had married A.1 in the presence of elders though a love marriage. At the time of the marriage, her parents gave 8 tulas of gold, furniture, and household items as dowry. After the marriage, the complainant and A.1 lived happily for some time. However, later her husband and in-laws started harassing her both physically and mentally. Due to this, she approached the Women Police Station, East Zone, on 24.11.2024, gave a petition and attended counseling. Despite this, there was no change in their behavior. Subsequently, she lodged another complaint on 11.01.2025, which was registered as Crime No.
8 of 2025 under Sections 498-A, 406, 506, and 323 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. From that day, she stayed with her parents at Amberpet. On 01.05.2025, her husband and in-laws gave her a written assurance that they would treat her well. Trusting them, she returned to her matrimonial home and lived there for about a month. During this time, her husband took a loan and purchased a mobile phone in her name. Later, she became pregnant. Even after knowing about her pregnancy, A.
- 3 - physically. Her husband allegedly beat her severely on her stomach, and her father-in-law slapped her. Her in-laws also pressurized A.1 to divorce her. Due to the harassment meted out by her, she suffered a miscarriage on 05.08.2025. She then approached the police again and requested appropriate legal action against the accused. Based on her complaint, a case was registered under the aforementioned sections. 3.
Heard Sri K.S.S. Ayyubi, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri D.Arun Kumar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent-State. 4.
The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that petitioners herein are A.2 to A.4 and they are innocent of the said allegations. After lodging complaint before police, she never returned to the house of petitioners and she lived with her parents at Amberpet. The complainant also filed D.V.C.No.175 of 2025 on the file of III Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Hyderabad. Therefore, harassing the complainant by the petitioners does not arise as they are living separately from the last eight months. He further submitted that petitioners herein are falsely implicated in this case. Petitioner Nos.1 and 2 are suffering with health issues and petitioner No.3 is a daily wage
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On the other hand, learned Additional Public Prosecutor opposed bail contending that the alleged offence against the petitioners is serious in nature and there are serious allegations against them. Due to their physical manhandling of defacto complainant, she lost her pregnancy. As such, it requires custodial interrogation and prayed to dismiss this petition. 6.
Considering the submissions made and perusal of material on record, petitioners herein are father-in-law, motherin-law and brother-in-law of defacto complainant. The allegations against them are omnibus in nature and there are no specific allegations against them. Further the record shows that defacto complainant already filed another criminal case and D.V.C. In the complaint also the specific allegation against father-in-law and mother-in-law is that father-in-law slapped and mother-in-law cursed her. Considering the allegations against these petitioners and the health of petitioner Nos.1 and 2, this Court deems it fit to grant bail to the petitioners subject to the following conditions :
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The petitioners/A.2 to A.4 shall surrender before the Station House Officer, Jagadgirigutta Police Station, Cyberabad within two weeks from today, and on such surrender, the said Station House Officer shall release petitioners/A.2 to A.4 on bail on their executing a personal bond for Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand only) each with two sureties, for the like sum each.
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The petitioners/A.2 to A.4 shall appear before the concerned SHO at 11:00 a.m., on every Wednesday for a period of eight
(8) weeks, for the purpose of investigation and thereafter, as and when required.
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The petitioners/A.2 to A.4 shall abide by the other conditions stipulated in Section 482 (2) of BNSS and co-operate with the Investigating Officer in investigating the case.
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Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed.
Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending shall stand closed. _______________ K. SUJANA, J Date : 05.12.2025 Rds
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