APHC010121162025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] WEDNESDAY ,THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2615/2025 Between: Vimala Mallidi @ Sri Reddy ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. GOUTHAMI SURAPAREDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER:- This Criminal Petition u/Sec.482 of B.N.S.S. is filed seeking to enlarge the petitioner/accused on anticipatory bail in Crime No.452/2024 of Kancharapalem police station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate registered for the offences punishable under Section 353(2), 356(2) of B.N.S and Section 67 of I.T.A. Act. 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the State. 3. At the time of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner has confined his request only to order notice under Section 35-3 of B.N.S.S. by following the judgment in Arnesh Kumar vs. State of Bihar of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, stating that the aforesaid offences 2 registered against the petitioner are punishable with less than seven years period of imprisonment. 4. Therefore, in view of the aforesaid request, this Criminal Petition is disposed of, with a direction to the Investigating Officer to follow the procedure contemplated under Section 35-3 of B.N.S.S, scrupulously. Miscellaneous petitions, if any pending, in the Criminal Petition, shall stand closed. ______________________________ JUSTICE T.MALLIKARJUNA RAO 19.3.2025 RD/TJN 3 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T.MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.2615 OF 2025 Dated 19.3.2025 RD