APHC010185442025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3908/2025 Between: Mr Vallabhneni Vamsi Mohan ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. V.Devi Satya Sri Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition u/Sec.482 of B.N.S.S. is filed seeking to enlarge the petitioner/A1 on anticipatory bail in Crime No.81/2025 of Gannavaram Urban Police Station, Krishna District registered for the offences punishable under Sections 379, 420, 120b r/w 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘the IPC’), Section 21(1) of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (for short ‘the MMDARA’) and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 (for short ‘the PDPPA’). 2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Advocate General for the State. 3. At the time of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners has confined his request only to order notice under Section 35-3 of B.N.S.S. by following the judgment in Arnesh Kumar vs. State of Bihar of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, stating that the aforesaid offences registered against the petitioners are punishable with less than seven years period of imprisonment. 4. Therefore, in view of the above, this Criminal Petition is disposed of, with a direction to the Investigating Officer to follow the procedure contemplated under Section 35-3 of the B.N.S.S, scrupulously by following the judgment in Arnesh Kumar vs. State of Bihar of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. Miscellaneous petitions, if any pending, in the Criminal Petition, shall stand closed. ________________________________ JUSTICE T.MALLIKARJUNA RAO 23.4.2025 TJN 20 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T.MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.3908 OF 2025 Dated 23.4.2025 TJN