1 APHC010165332022 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] FRIDAY ,THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3036/2022 Between: Smt.thota Rajeswari and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. DASARI S V V S V PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) The Court made the following: 2 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3036/2022 ORDER: The instant petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short, “Cr.P.C.”) has been filed by the Petitioners/ Accused Nos.2 to 4, seeking quashment of the proceedings pending against them in C.C.No.172 of 2021 on the file of Principal Junior Civil Judge cum Judicial First Class Magistrate, Gudivada, Krishna District. 2. Heard Sri Dasari S.V.V.S.V. Prasad, learned counsel for the petitioners and Ms. K. Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of the State. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the petition may be disposed of without causing any prejudice to the rights and contentions of the petitioners, by dispensing the presence of the petitioners/A2 to A4 before the Trial Court. 4. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor would submit that Court may pass appropriate orders. 5. In that view, the Criminal petition is disposed of. However, the petitioners are at liberty to raise all their contentions before the Trial Court in their defence. The presence of the petitioners/A2 to A4 before the Trial Court is dispensed with unless their presence is specifically directed by the Trial Court. 3 As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. __________________________________________ Dr. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date: 24.01.2025 UPS 4 31 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Crl.P.No.3036 of 2022 Dt.24.01.2025 UPS