APHC010138122025 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: 2979/2025 Between: Kunchala Narayana ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. CH NAGENDRA SARMA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: -2- CRL.P. No.2979 of 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.2979 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitionerwas arraigned as accused in Crime No.297of 2024 of Kanigiri Police Station, Prakasam District, registered for the alleged offences under Sections 420, 406 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. 3. It is alleged in the complaint that the petitioner, being the employee of the 2nd respondent, had collected money from the retailers and cheated the 2nd respondent. The learned counsel 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 petitioner, the Station House Officer, Kanigiri Police Station, Prakasam District, is directed to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023,insofar as the petitioner are concerned, for -3- CRL.P. No.2979 of 2025 the purpose of investigation in connection with Crime No.297 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.20.03.2025 BV