Contd..2P.. APHC010148782025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] FRIDAY ,THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3327/2025 Between: Dasari Ramana and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. RAMAKRISHNA AKURATHI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: -2- CRL.P. No.3327 of 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3327 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners were arraigned as A.1 and A.2 in Crime No.141 of 2025 of Pendurthy Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 329(3), 324(4), 351(2) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that on account of civil disputes, the petitioners were arraigned as accused in the present complaint. 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, Pendurthy Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, is directed to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 -3- CRL.P. No.3327 of 2025 for the purpose of investigation in connection with Crime No.141 of 2025. 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.28.03.2025 BV