THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI FRIDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5375 OF 2025 IN Between: 1. Smt Gurram Radhamani, W/o Gurram Penchalaiah, aged about 50 . Household, R/o. 25-3-563, Flat No. 104, Sri Balaji Residency, 8th Street, Podalakur Road, VTC, SPSR Nellore District Penchalaiah, S/o. Gurram Narasaiah, aged about 60 years, Occ Business, R/o. 25-3-563, Flat No. 104, Sri Balaji Residency, Nethajinagar, 8th Street, Podalakur Road, VTC, SPSR Nellore District. Harshavardhini, W/o. K.Chandu, aged about 28 years, R/o. 20-49-517-2580-1, Maruthi Nagar, Tirupati Urban, Koriagunta, VTC, Tirupati District. Presently residing at Singapore. 4. Sri Karanam years Nethajinagar, 2. Sri Gurram 3. Smt. Gurram Chandu, S/o. K.Yugandhar, aged about 28 years, Occ Private employee, R/o. 20-49-517-2580-1, Maruthi Nagar, Tirupati VTC, Tirupati District. Presently residing at Urban, Koriagunta Singapore. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED NOS.2 TO 5 AND State of Andhra Pradesh, Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati 2. Cherukuri Sneha Deepika, W/o. Gurram Sri Harsha Nanda, D/o. Cherukuri Chennaiah, aged about 27 years. Household, R/o. 27/2/740, 1. The Flat No. 307, Rohitha Paradise Apartment, Saraswathi Nagar Dargamitta, Nellore City, SPSR Nellore District. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Section 528 of BNSS praying that in the - circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court pleased to quash the proceedings as against the petitioners herein in F.I.R.No. 8/2025 of Mahila UPS, Nellore, Police Station, SPSR Nellore District. I.A. NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to stay all further proceedings in F.I.R.No.8/2025 of Mahila UPS Nellore, Police Station, SPSR Nellore District including arrest of the petitioners pending disposal of the present Criminal Petition. This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri VENKAT RAO RAVULAPALLI, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent No.1 and none appeared for the Respondent No.2. The Court made the following: 1 HN, J Crl.P.No.5375 2025 APHC010253612025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] r FRIDAY ,THE NINTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5375/2025 Between; ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED{S) Smt Gurram Radhamani and Others AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others Counsel for the Petitloner/accused(S): 1.VENKAT RAO RAVULAPALLl Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S); 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2 HN, J V Crl.P.No.5375 2025 The Court made the following Order: 1. The petitioners are arraigned as Accused Nos.2 to 5, in FIR No.8 of 2025, on the file of Nellore Police Station, SPSR District, for the alleged offence under Sections 318(4), 336(2), 340(2) read with Section 3(5) of the BNS. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. Though the learned counsel for the petitioners filed this petition seeking the quashing of the FIR, they have, however, restricted the relief to the extent of 3. directing the Investigating Officer to follow the procedure prescribed under Section 35(3) of the BNSS, and the guidelines prescribed by the Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar\ 4. The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor stated that he has no objection to give such a direction. 5. The Criminal Petition is disposed off by directing the Station House Officer Nellore Police Station, SPSR District, to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS”) insofar as the petitioner is concerned. As a sequel, pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, stand closed. 1 (2014) 8 see 273 Sd/- M. SRINIVAS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPYII SEeTION OFFieER To, 1. The Station House Officer, Mahila UPS, Nellore, SPSR Nellore District. 2. One CC to Sri Venkat Rao Ravulapalli Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CCs to The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh. [OUT] 4. Three CD Copies HIGH COURT DATED:09/05/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.5375 of 2025 8» /O ( | 0 5 AUfi 20?^ m 9i V'if' ^ Current Section . DISPOSING THE CRLP