CONTD…2P.. APHC010122282025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY ,THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2651/2025 Between: Bailaraju Sudhir Kumar @ Sudhir @ Bailaraju Sudher Kumar Raju ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. M VENKATESWARLA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. KALEPU YASHWANTH 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 CRL.P. No.2651 OF 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N I.A. Nos.2 and 3 OF 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2651 OF 2025 COMMON ORDER: 1. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was arraigned as A.8 in P.R.C. No.23 of 2017 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Rajampet, for the alleged offences under Sections 147, 148, 324, 506 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015. 2. The learned counsel further submits that the case against the petitioner/A.8, A.4, A.15 and A.23 was split up, and as such, the same was not made over to the Sessions Court for trial, and it remained with the Judicial Magistrate of First Class and numbered it as P.R.C. No.23 of 2017. 3. It is further submitted that the case against A.2, A.3, A.7, A.9 to A.11, A.14, A.16, A.20, A.24, A.27, A.29, and A.30, as well as the case against A.5, A.6, A.25, and A.28, were made over to the Court of Sessions. These cases were numbered as Spl. S.C. No.39 of 2016 and Spl. S.C. No.8 of 2019, respectively. 3 CRL.P. No.2651 OF 2025 4. The learned counsel further submits that upon compromise, A.4 filed Crl.P.No.7615 of 2024 before this Court, seeking permission to compound the offence. This Court, vide order dated 11.05.2024, permitted the petitioner/A.4 to compound the offence and quashed the offence registered against him. 5. The learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the 2ndrespondent/de facto complainant submit that the parties have amicably settled their dispute and have filed I.A. Nos. 2 and 3 of 2025, accompanying the affidavit of the 2nd respondent/ de facto complainant and the joint memo, seeking the permission of this Court to allow the petitioner/A.8 and the de facto complainant to compound the alleged offence in P.R.C. No.23 of 2017. 6. The petitioner/A.8 and the 2nd respondent/de facto complainant are present in the Court. The parties were identified by their respective counsel. The identity cards of both the parties were verified. 7. The 2nd respondent submits that, pursuant to the intervention of well- wishers, he has withdrawn the allegations made against the petitioner. He further confirmed that the compromise was reached voluntarily, without coercion or undue influence. 8. Recording the submissions of the 2nd respondent, I.A. Nos.2 and 3 of 2025 are allowed and the proceedings in P.R.C. No.23 of 2017 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Rajampet, against the petitioner/A.8 for the offence under Sections 147, 148, 324, 506 read 4 CRL.P. No.2651 OF 2025 with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015, are hereby quashed. 9. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed. 10. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed. _____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N Dt.13.03.2025 BV