Contd..2P.. APHC010152872025 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: 3336/2025 Between: Kondabathula Jeevan Kumar, and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. BONU RAMA SHANKAR RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: -2- CRL.P. No.3336 of 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3336 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners 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 to A.5in Crime No.56 of 2025 of Mahila Urban Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, registered for the alleged offences under Sections 85 and 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the 1st petitioner is the husband and the 2nd petitioner is the mother-in-law of the 2nd respondent. The 3rd and 5th petitioners are the brother and sister of the 1st petitioner, while the 4th petitioner is the wife of the 3rd petitioner. It is further submitted that on account of certain marital disputes, the petitioners were arraigned as accused in the present case. The learned counsel further submits that there are no specific allegations against petitioners 2 to 5 and are falsely implicated in the complaint. 4. 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. -3- CRL.P. No.3336 of 2025 5. Considering the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioners, the Station House Officer, Mahila Urban Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, is directed to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, insofar as the petitioners are concerned, for the purpose of investigation in connection with Crime No.56 of 2025. 6. Accordingly, the criminal petition is disposed off. 7. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the criminal petition shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH. N Dt.28.03.2025 BV