APHC010138932025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3232/2025 Between: Challagundla Babu Rao Alias Babu and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. PONNEKANTI MALLIKARJUNA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. RADHIKA NAGOTHU 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: -2- CRL.P. No.3232 OF 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH. N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3232 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners and the 3rd respondent herein were arraigned as A.1, A.3, A.9 and A.2 in C.C. No.88 of 2019 on the file of the Court of the Junior Civil Judge, Piduguralla, for the offence allegedly committed by the petitioners and the 3rd respondent under Sections 120-B, 420, 506 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code,1860 and Sections 3 and 4 of the A.P. Gaming Act, 1974 and Section 20(b)(ii) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that A.3 and A.9 have passed away during the pendency of the trial. 4. Upon perusal of the record, it is evident that A.1 has been charged with offences under Sections 20(b)(ii) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The matter involves questions of fact that are required to be established before a competent court. Hence, this Court is not inclined to entertain the criminal petition at this stage. -3- CRL.P. No.3232 OF 2025 5. Accordingly, the criminal petition is dismissed. 6. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the criminal petition shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH. N Dt.01.04.2025 BV