IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH :: AMARAVATI TUESDAY ,THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2894 OF 2025 Between: Velaga Sriramamurthy, S/o. Ramarao, Aged about 50 years, R/o. 1-55, Ramalayam Street, Komatigunta, Gopalapuram Mandal, East Godavari District. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED N0.4 AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati. Through the Station House Officer, Gopalapuram P.S., East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. 2. Tathapudi Divakar, Deputy Tahsildar (C.S) GopalapuramMandal, East Godavari ...RESPONDENT N0.2/DE-FACT0 COMPLAINANT Petition under Section 528 of B.N.S.S, 2023 praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to quash the FIR No. 08/2025 on the file of the Gopalapuram Police Station, East Godavari District. •* I.A. NO: 1 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 in FfR No. 08/2025 on the file of the Gopalapuram Police Station, East Godavari District. / This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Ala Chandrasekhar Yadav, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent No. 1 The Court made the following ORDER : *■ / APHC010134992025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) -r [3457] TUESDAY ,THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2894/2025 Between: ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED Velaga Sriramamurthy AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1 .ALA CHANDRASEKHAR YADAV r Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: ft The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is falsely implicated in FIR No.08 of 2025 on the file of Gopalapuram Police Station, East Godavari District, for the alleged offences under Sections 318(4) r/w 3(5) of the 2 \ Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and 7(1) of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. 2. The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that the matter is still at the investigation stage. 3. Considering the submissions of the both the learned counsel, the Criminal Petition is disposed off, directing the Station House Officer/Investigating Officer, for the purpose of investigation in FIR No.08 of 2025 on the file of Gopalapuram Police Station, East Godavari District, to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if SDI- A.VENUGOPALA R ASSISTANT REGISTR any, shall stand closed. AR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To. 1. The Station House Officer, Gopalapuram P.S., East Godavari District, 2. One CC to Sri. Ala Chandrasekhar Yadav Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravathi [OUT] 4. THREE CD COPIES stu TAG ♦ ^ HIGH COURT DATED:18/03/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.2894 of 2025 S’ 01 APR 2025 i iQ, & ^ . Current Secuon DISPOSING OF THE CRIMINAL PETITION i