1 APHC010178372025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] WEDNESDAY ,THE NINTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3863/2025 Between: Bandela Raja and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. B.SUDHAKAR KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3863 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.6 in Crime No.48 of 2025 of Mandapeta Rural Police Station, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema District, registered for the alleged offence under Section 85 read with 34 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, on the complaint of the 2nd respondent. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the 1st petitioner/A.1 is the husband of the 2nd respondent and that petitioners 2 and 3 are the parents and petitioner No.4 is the sister, petitioner No.6 is the brother of A.1 and petitioner No.5 is the husband of petitioner No.4. 4. The learned counsel further submits that, on account of marital disputes between the 1st petitioner/A.1 and the 2nd respondent, petitioners 2 to 6 were falsely implicated in the present crime and that they lived separately and never interfered with the marital affairs of A.1 and the 2nd respondent. The learned counsel further 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 3 provided under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 5. Considering the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioners, the Station House Officer, Mandapeta Rural Police Station, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema District, 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.48 of 2025. This order would not preclude the investigation officer to file charge sheet or final report after completion of the investigation. 6. Accordingly, the criminal petition is disposed of. 7. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the criminal petition shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N Dt.09.04.2025 BV