APHC010240382011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] TUESDAY ,THE ELEVENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO I.A.No.1 of 2024 IN/AND CRIMINAL REVISION CASE NO: 2102 of 2011 Between: Ganta Venkateswar Rao ...PETITIONER AND Shaik Sikindhar The State Of A P and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. SREEKANTH REDDY AMBATI Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) 2. Dr CHALLA SRINIVASA REDDY The Court made the following: COMMON ORDER: I.A.No.1 of 2024 is filed to record the compromise in this revision and set aside the conviction and sentence passed by the learned I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Tenali in C.C.No.144 of 2009, dated 10.03.2011, as confirmed in Criminal Appeal No.117 of 2011 on the file of the Court of the XI Additional District Judge (FTC), Guntur at Tenali. 2 2. In the affidavit, accompanied with the petition, it is averred that the matter was compromised at the behest of the elders and requested to compound the offence. The petition is appended with the receipt issued by Andhra Pradesh State Legal Services Authority for an amount of Rs.31,500/-, pursuant to the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Damodar S.Prabhu vs. Sayed Babalal H1. It is need to mention that the Hon’ble Apex Court in Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority vs. Prateek Jain2, gave certain directions to compound the offence sans payment of any costs as contemplated in Damodar’s (referred supra) case, in appropriate cases. 3. In view of the compromise affected in between the parties and also payment of certain amount to the State Legal Services Authority, the case deserves to be compounded as compromised in between the parties. Accordingly, I.A.No.1 of 2024 is ordered. 4. The Criminal Revision Case is allowed compounding the offence.Consequently, the conviction and sentence passed by the learned I Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Tenali in C.C.No.144 of 2009, dated 10.03.2011, as confirmed in Criminal Appeal No.117 of 2011 by the leaned XI Additional District Judge (FTC), Guntur at Tenali is set aside, accordingly, the revisionist is acquitted. 1 (2010) 5 SCC 663 2 (2014) 10 SCC 690 3 As a sequel, interlocutory applications, if any pending, shall stand closed. _________________________ DR. Y. LAKSHMANA RAO, J. Date: 11.02.2025 sj 4 70 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO I.A.No.1 of 2024 IN/AND CRIMINAL REVISION CASE NO: 2102 of 2011 Date: 11.02.2025 sj