IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI THURSDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2678 OF 2025 Between: Kadiyala Satish Babu, S/o. Venkata Krishna Rao, aged about 48 years, Occ. Business, R/o D. No.2-16, Ampapuram Village, Bapulapadu Mandal, Krishna District. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED No.3 AND 1. Anne Harikrishna, S/o. Rarria Rao, aged. Major, Occ. Business, R/o Kesarapalli Village, Gannavaram Mandal, Krishna District. (DEFACTO COMPLAINANT) 2. The State of Andhra Pradesh, through SHO, Gannavaram Police Station, Krishna District, rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of AP At Amaravati. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Surksha Sanhita, 2023 praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to quash the complaint/FIR in Crime No. 76 of 2025 of Gannavaram Police Station, Krishna District (on the file of I Additional Junior Civil Judge cum XII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Gannavaram). I.A. NO: 2 OF 2025 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to stay all further proceedings including arrest of Petitioner/Accused No.3 in Crime No. 76 of 2025 of Gannavaram Police Station, Krishna District (on the file of I Additional Junior Civil Judge cum XII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Gannavaram), pending disposal of main Criminal Petition. This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri K.P.S. Sailesh Reddy, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent No.2 and None Appeared for the Respondent No. 1. The Court made the following ORDER : w APHC010122852025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY.THE TWENTIETH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2678/2025 Between: Kadiyala Satish Babu ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND Anne Harikrishna and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.K.P.S. SAILESH REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2. The Court made the following: 2 CRL.P. No.2678 OF 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.2678 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. The petitioner was arraigned as A.3 in Crime No.76 of 2025 of Gannavaram Police Station, Krishna District, registered for the alleged offences under Sections 420, 407, 467, 468, 120b r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. It is alleged in the complaint that the 1®* respondent supplied * 3. gravel for the arrangements of the State function but was not paid for the same. Upon enquiry, it was revealed that the petitioner/A.3 colluded with A.1 and A.2 created false bills under the name 'Babu Enterprises' and received the payments that were meant for the 1®* respondent. 4. The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State submits that the police registered a case in Crime No.76 of 2025 on 25.02.2025, and the police need to complete the investigation to ascertain the facts. 5. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has no role in the non-payment of the alleged bills. 6. Considering the same, since the punishment for the offences registered against the petitioner is more than 7 years, this Court deems it appropriate to dispose off the criminali^petition by w 3 CRL.P. No.2678 OF 2025 directing the Investigation Officer/Station House Officer of Gannavaram Police Station to complete the investigation in Crime No.76 of 2025 without taking any coercive measures against the petitioner/A3. The petitioner shall cooperate with the investigation. However, this would not preclude the Investigation Officer from filing a charge sheet or final report. 7. Accordingly, the criminal petition is disposed off. 8. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed. SDI- M.PRABHAKAR RAO ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To, 1. The Station House Officer, Gannavaram Police Station, Krishna District. The I Additional Junior Civil Judge cum XII Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Gannavaram. 2. 3. One CC to SRI. K.P.S. SAILESH REDDY Advocate [OPUC] 4. Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravathi [OUT] 5. THREE CD COPIES Chp TAG ♦ HIGH COURT DATED:20/03/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.2678 of 2025 S 10 APR 2025 \ Current iieciion DISPOSING OF THE CRIMINAL PETITION