APHC010199592019 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: 3932/2019 Between: Mailadasaveswara Rao and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. M SURYA KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. SURESH KUMAR PUSARLA 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR.No.194 of 2019 on the file of the Station House Officer, Duvvada Police Station, Visakhapatnam. 2. Heard Sri Ravuri Leela Sai Sampath, learned counsel representing Sri M.Surya Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners/A1 & A3 and learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1. 3. On 14.08.2019, this Court permitted the investigating agency to proceed further with the investigation while restraining the investigating agency from affecting arrest of petitioners/A1 & A3. On hearing the submissions on both sides, it transpires that in this gap of five years, the Investigating Officer must have proceeded with the investigation. In these circumstances, with the following directions, this criminal petition could be disposed of. 4. Respondents are at liberty to complete the investigation and file necessary police report, if it was not filed before the Court concerned. No coercive steps shall be taken by the investigative agency as against petitioners/A1 & A3 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 204 THE HONOURABLE SMT.JUSTICE V.SUJATHA Crl.P.No.3932 of 2019 Date: 07.01.2025 SRT