The petitioner, Malam Bhagyarao, Chief Secretary of the National Dalit Bahujan Front, sought quashing of criminal proceedings against him in C.C. No.325 of 2019 before the Special Judicial First Class Magistrate for Railways, Guntur, for alleged offences under Sections 143, 341, and 188 read with Section 34 IPC, arising from a peaceful dharna he staged at Lodge Centre, Guntur in 2016. He argued that the charge sheet lacked specific allegations constituting an unlawful assembly or wrongful restraint, and that prosecution under Section 188 IPC was barred because the mandatory requirement of a written complaint by the concerned public servant under Section 195(1)(a) Cr.P.C. had not been fulfilled — the case having been initiated on a report by a Head Constable instead. The Andhra Pradesh High Court, Amaravati, agreed, finding that the material on record did not disclose sufficient particulars to establish the ingredients of Sections 143 and 341 IPC, and that the statutory bar under Section 195(1)(a) Cr.P.C. applied to the Section 188 IPC charge. Relying on the principles in State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal, the Court held that continuing the proceedings would amount to an abuse of the process of the Court and exercised its inherent jurisdiction under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to quash the proceedings.