IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI THURSDAY. THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA GUNARANJAN CRIMINAL PETITION No.5609 of 2025 Between: 1. Kotagiri Venkata Ramana Rao, S/o. Jaggaiah, Age 83 years, Occ: Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda, Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District. 2. Kotagiri Subba Rao, S/o. Venkata Ramana Rao, Age 53 years, Occ: Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda, Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District. ' 3. Pamujala Narasimha Rao, S/o. Chinna Venkateswarlu, Age 55 years, Occ: Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda, Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District. 4. Immadisetty Venkobu Rao, S/o. Venkata Subbaiah, Age 65 years, Occ: Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda, Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District. ...Petitioners/Accused 2 to 5 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati. ...Respondent Petition under Section 482 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to grant Anticipatory Bail to them by directing the police to release them on bail in the event of their arrest in connection with Crime No. 24 of 2025 of Pullala Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District. . * This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum o1 Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Smt Nimmagadda Revathi, Advocate for the Petitioners and the Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent. The Court made the following: >•'. i. ' / •, APHC010274202025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) 0M0 [3506] “,T. 0sre THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA GUNARANJAN CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5609/2025 Between: Kotagiri Venkata Ramana Tao and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1.NIMMAGADDA REVATHI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2 HCGR.J CRLP.No.5609 of 2025 The Court made the following ORDER: The present petition is filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, seeking anticipatory bail. The petitioners are the accused Nos.2 to 5 on the file of Pullala I ( Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 465, 468, 506, 447 read with 120b IPC. Facts, in brief, of the case are that on 07.05.2025, the 2. de facto complainant lodged a report stating that the petitioners/accused Nos.2 to 5 along with accused No.1 in order to execute sale deeds in favour of the innocent purchasers, created forged documents for substantial amount of money with criminal conspiracy. 3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent-State. Perused the record. As seen from the provisions, the offences are punishable 4. with seven years or less than seven years. In view of the above, the present Criminal Petition is 5. disposed of directing the police concerned to follow the procedure prescribed under Section 35(3) of B.N.S.S. as per the guidelines enunciated in Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar\ ' (2014) 8 see 273 \ J HCGR,J CRL. P. No. 5609 of 2025 As a sequel, Interlocutory Applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. Sd/- M PRABHAKAR RAO ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER 1. The Station House Officer, Pullala Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District. 2. Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravathi [OUT] 3. One CC to Smt Nimmagadda Revathi, Advocate [OPUC] 4. Three CD Copies To TK ')■ : HIGH COURT DATED:22/05/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.5609 of 2025 AND«^ x 2 6 MAY 2025 Cunent secuon DISPOSING OF THE CRIMINAL PETITION