APHC010134982025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] WEDNESDAY ,THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2932/2025 Between: Kolan Chandrapal Reddy and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. YASWANTH GADE Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: CRL.P. No.2932 of 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.2932 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners. 2. The petitioners were arraigned as A.1 to A.4 in Crime No.338 of 2024 of Kakinada II Town Police Station, Kakinada District, registered for the alleged offences under Section 82(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 174(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that there are no specific allegations against the petitioners, and they were falsely implicated in the case. The learned counsel further submits that the offences alleged against the petitioners are punishable below 7 years and, therefore, seeks a direction to the police to follow the procedure provided under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 4. Considering the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioners, the Station House Officer, Kakinada II Town Police Station, Kakinada District, is directed to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, insofar as the petitioners are concerned, CRL.P. No.2932 of 2025 for the purpose of investigation in connection with Crime No.338 of 2024. 5. Accordingly, the criminal petition is disposed off. 6. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the criminal petition shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH. N Dt.19.03.2025 BV