APHC010140782025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: Between: 1. KONAM RAVI TEJA, S/O NARAYANA SWAMY, AGED ABOUT 29 YEARS,R/O ANANTAPURAMDISTRICT.NOW RESIDING AT D.NO.212/3, SREERAMNAGAR,PETANCHERUVU,SANGAREDDY,TELANGANA STATE. 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep. By its. Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh Nelapadu, Amaravathi. Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. MEDARA SIVA PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition, Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3030/2025 KONAM RAVI TEJA, S/O NARAYANA SWAMY, AGED ABOUT 29 TELIKIVILLAGE.PEDDAVADUGURUMANDAL, ANANTAPURAMDISTRICT.NOW RESIDING AT D.NO.212/3, SREERAMNAGAR,PETANCHERUVU,SANGAREDDY,TELANGANA ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep. By its. Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh Nelapadu, Amaravathi. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: MEDARA SIVA PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 & 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A.1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH [3369] THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO KONAM RAVI TEJA, S/O NARAYANA SWAMY, AGED ABOUT 29 TELIKIVILLAGE.PEDDAVADUGURUMANDAL, ANANTAPURAMDISTRICT.NOW RESIDING AT D.NO.212/3, SREERAMNAGAR,PETANCHERUVU,SANGAREDDY,TELANGANA ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep. By its. Public Prosecutor, ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT of the Bharatiya /A.1, seeking 2 regular bail, in Crime No.226 of 2024 of Jammalamadugu U/G Police Station, YSR District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner for the offence punishable under Sections 457 & 380 IPC. 3. The brief facts of the case are that on the intervening night of 25/26.02.2024 at GRO No.12189, Ramireddymotu, Jammalamadugu town, some unknown offenders cut the iron sheet roof top of the GRO No.12189, entered into the shop through roof, broken the iron chest in the shop and committed theft of Rs.8,04,680/- which is the three days collection amount of Government liquor shop and decamped with booty. Based on the complainant given by one Jitta Venkatesh, Supervisor of the said shop, the present crime was registered on 26.02.2024. During the course of investigation, the petitioner was arrested on 10.02.2025 and remanded to judicial custody and the remaining accused are yet to be arrested. 4. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor representing the respondent/State. Perused the record. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioner/accused contends that the petitioner was arrested on 10.02.2025 and since then he has been in judicial custody, and the petitioner was arrested only due to the pending previous cases against him. 3 6. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor opposed to grant bail to the petitioner on the ground that investigation is not yet completed, and according to her instructions, petitioner is a habitual offender and eight similar cases have been registered against him. 7. After careful observation of the material on record and submissions made on behalf of both sides, it appears that there is a force in the arguments put forth by the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor that material part of investigation is still pending and two more accused are yet to be apprehended. Considering the submission that the petitioner is a habitual offender, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner/A.1 at this stage. 8. In the result, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. However, the petitioner/A.1 is given liberty to approach the learned Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Jammalamadugu, after change of circumstances. ____________________________ JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO Dated: 28.03.2025 anr 4 114 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.3030 of 2025 Dated: 28.03.2025 anr