APHC010168132021 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3333] TUESDAY ,THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE V.SUJATHA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3270/2021 Between: Narayanaswamy Ravi Kumar ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. GOPALA KRISHNA KALANIDHI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings in Cr.No.67 of 2020 on the file of the Station House Officer, Nagiri Urban Police Station, Chittoor District. 2. Heard Sri Gopala Krishna Kalanidhi, learned counsel for the petitioner/A1 and learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1. On hearing the submissions on both sides, it transpires that in this gap of five years, the investigation must have gone further. In these circumstances, with the following directions, this criminal petition could be disposed of. 3. Respondents are at liberty to complete the investigation and file necessary police report, if it was not filed before the Courts concerned. No coercive steps shall be taken by the investigative agency as against petitioner/A1 by virtue of investigative outcome. All the contentions raised by the petitioner herein are left to his liberty to be contested either before the trial Court or by an appropriate application before any appropriate Court. 4. With the above direction, this criminal petition is disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, in the Criminal Petition, shall stand closed. __________________ JUSTICE V.SUJATHA Date: 07.01.2025 SRT 269 THE HONOURABLE SMT.JUSTICE V.SUJATHA Crl.P.No.3270 of 2021 Date: 07.01.2025 SRT