APHC010148252025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] MONDAY ,THE SEVENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3419/2025 Between: K. Kuppaswamy Gownder and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND S Chandrasekhar and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. D PURNACHANDRA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. RAMAKRISHNA AKURATHI 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N I.A.Nos.2 and 3 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.3419 of 2025 COMMON ORDER: The instant petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short BNSS) has been filed by the petitioners/Accused Nos.1 to 3, seeking quashment of the proceedings against them in S.C.No.88 of 2017 on the file of Principal Assistant Sessions Judge, Chittoor for the offences under Sections 307, 326, 324 r/w 34 IPC. 2. The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the state submits that the Sessions Court initially convicted the accused for the offence under Sections 307, 326 of IPC. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the Appellate Court had set aside the order of Sessions Court and remanded the matter to consider afresh and also further submits that as on date the petitioners are not convicted and the matter is pending before the Sessions Court. It is further submitted that the accused No.2 is a soldier in the Army and the accused No.3 is a student. 3. The de facto complainant filed I.A.Nos.2 and 3 of 2025, duly enclosing a Joint Memo entered between the petitioners as well as de facto complainant. It is stated that at the intervention of elders on both sides, the petitioners and the de facto complainant have arrived at an understanding and the matter has been settled between them. 3 4. The learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel representing for the unofficial respondent No.1 (de facto-complainant) and learned Assistant Public Prosecutor representing the State are present. 5. Today, when the matter is taken up, petitioners herein/Accused Nos.1to 3 and 1st respondent herein are present before this Court. They produced their respective Aadhar cards in proof of their identity. Learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for 1st respondent have identified the parties in the open Court. 6. This Court has questioned 1st respondent herein/de facto complainant with regard to compromise, and she categorically stated to that extent that she has voluntarily entered into compromise with the petitioners herein/Accused Nos.1 to 3. This Court is satisfied with the identification of the parties and voluntariness in arriving at the compromise. 7. Since the parties entered into settlement and compromise, the Criminal Petition is allowed and therefore, the proceedings in S.C.No. 88 of 2017 on the file of Principal Assistant Sessions Judge, Chittoor against the petitioners herein/ Accused Nos.1to 3 is hereby quashed. 8. Accordingly, I.A.Nos.2 and 3 of 2025 and Criminal Petition No.3419 of 2025 are allowed. As a sequel, Interlocutory Applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N KGM 4 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N I.A.Nos.2 and 3 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.3419 of 2025 07.04.2025 KGM