1 CRL.P. No.3471 of 2025 APHC010157402025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] WEDNESDAY ,THE SECOND DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3471/2025 Between: Malaka Amarnath Reddy ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. KATTA SUDHAKAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 CRL.P. No.3471 of 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3471 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner was arraigned as Accused in Crime No.246 of 2024 of Visakhapatnam I Town Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, registered for the alleged offences under Sections 352, 353(1)(c), 196(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Sections 66 and 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000-2008. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the complaint. It is alleged in the complaint that the petitioner posted some abusive content on the social media platform, i.e., Facebook, against political leaders. The learned counsel further submits that the offences alleged against the petitioner are punishable by imprisonment of less than 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 petitioner, the Station House Officer, Visakhapatnam I Town Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, is directed to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya 3 CRL.P. No.3471 of 2025 Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, insofar as the petitioner is concerned, for the purpose of investigation in connection with Crime No.246 of 2024. 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.02.04.2025 BV 4 CRL.P. No.3471 of 2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3471 OF 2025 02.04.2025 BV