CONTD…2P.. APHC010151262025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3303/2025 Between: Chintaguntla Rajendra Prasad ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. RAMESH BABU NELATURI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2. K JOSEPH The Court made the following: -2- CRL.P. No.3303 OF 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N I.A. Nos.2 and 3 OF 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No:3303 OF 2025 COMMON ORDER: 1. The learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the 2ndrespondent/de facto complainant submit that the parties have amicably settled their dispute and have filed I.A. Nos.2 and 3 of 2025, accompanying the affidavit of the 2nd respondent/ de facto complainant and the joint memo, seeking permission of this Court to allow the petitioner and the de facto complainant to compound the offence under Sections 66-C and 67A of the Information Technology Act 2000-2008 registered against the petitioner in C.C. No.1910 of 2024on the file of the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Visakhapatnam. 2. The petitioner and the 2nd respondent/de facto complainant are present in the Court. The identity cards of both the parties were verified. 3. The 2nd respondent submitsthat, pursuant to the intervention of well- wishers, he has withdrawn the allegations against the petitioner. He further confirmed that the compromise was reached voluntarily, without coercion or undue influence. 4. Recording the submissions of the 2nd respondent, I.A. Nos.2 and 3 of 2025 are allowed and the proceedings against the petitioner in C.C. No.1910 of 2024 on the file of the Court of theChief Judicial Magistrate, -2- CRL.P. No.3303 OF 2025 Visakhapatnam, for the offences Sections 66-C and 67A of the Information Technology Act 2000-2008, are hereby quashed. 5. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed. 6. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N Dt.27.03.2025 BV