APHC010171622025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY ,THE THIRD DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3697/2025 Between: Kanuri Sri Venkatesh and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. K JYOTHI PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2. SS RAMA KRISHNA PRASAD The Court made the following: 2 I.A.Nos.1 and 2 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION NO.3697 of 2025 COMMON ORDER: The instant petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short BNSS) has been filed by the petitioners/respondent Nos.1 and 2, seeking to quash all further proceedings in DVC.No.243 of 2018 on the file of I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada, Krishna district, on the ground of compromise as the 2nd respondent has no objection for the same. 2. I.A.No.1 of 2025 is filed by the respondent/petitioner to accord permission to record the compromise and allow the criminal petition filed by the petitioners/respondent Nos.1 and 2 by quashing all further proceedings in DVC.No.243 of 2018. 3. I.A.No.2 of 2025 is filed by the respondent/petitioner, seeking to allow the criminal petition filed by the petitioners/respondent Nos.1 and 2 by quashing all further proceedings in DVC.No.243 of 2018, on the ground of compromise. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Assistant Public Prosecutor representing respondent No.1/State as well as learned counsel representing for the unofficial respondent No.2 are present. 3 5. Today, when the matter is taken up, petitioners and the respondent No.2 are present before this Court. Learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for respondent No.2 have identified the parties in the open Court. 6. This Court has questioned the respondent No.2 with regard to compromise, and she categorically stated to that extent that she has voluntarily entered into compromise with the petitioners herein. This Court is satisfied with the identification of the parties and voluntariness in arriving at the compromise. 7. Since the parties entered into settlement and compromise, the Criminal Petition is allowed and therefore, the proceedings in D.V.C.No.243 of 2018 on the file of I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada, Krishna district, against the petitioners herein is hereby quashed. 8. Accordingly, I.A.Nos.1 and 2 of 2025 and Criminal Petition No.3697 of 2025 are allowed. As a sequel, Interlocutory Applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N BMS