HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K. SURESH REDDY AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.HARI HARANADHA SARMA CRIMINAL APPEAL No.128 of 2017 ADVANCE ORDER: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice K. Suresh Reddy) In the result, the Criminal Appeal is allowed in-part. The conviction and sentence recorded against the appellant by the learned I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam, in Sessions Case No.35 of 2015, dated 24.11.2016, under Section 302 IPC, is hereby set aside. Instead the appellant/accused is convicted under Section 304 Part-II IPC and is sentenced to suffer Rigorous Imprisonment for a period of seven years, while maintaining the fine amount as imposed by the trial Court. In view of the fact that the appellant has already undergone more than eleven (11) years of imprisonment, he shall be set at liberty forthwith, if he is not required in any other case or crime. (Detailed Judgment follows…) ________________________ JUSTICE K.SURESH REDDY _____________________________________ JUSTICE A. HARI HARANADHA SARMA Date: 06.4.2026 Note: Please send the bundle to the P.S. chambers of KSR,J immediately after dispatch of the Advance Order. (B/o) ASR 2 HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURESH REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBAREDDY SATTI CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.2355 OF 2018 (per Hon’ble Sri Justice K. Suresh Reddy) Date: 31.12.2025 PSA