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2025 DAILYLAW 19768 (AP)

MEKALA NARENDRA REDDY v. THE STATE OF AP

CRLP/5727/2025 · 2025-06-04

Maheswara Rao Kuncheam

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IN THE HIGH COURTOF ANDHRA PRADESH AT A THURSDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF JUN TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIV :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RA`€ CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5727 OF 2025 Between : 1. Mekala Narendra Reddy, S/o. Late Koti Reddy Aged about 56 years, R/o. Do NO.26-13-185B.V. Nagar, Nellore CI'ty, S.P.S.R Nellore District. (Accused No.1 in FIR No.19/2025 of lndukurpeta P.S.) 2. Mekala Manoj Kumar Reddy, S/o. Mekala Narendra Reddy, Aged about 32 years, R/o. Do No.26-13-185 B.V. Nagar, Nellore City, S.P.S.R, Nellore District. (Accused No. 2 in FIR No.19/2025 of lndukurpeta P.S.) ...Petitioners/Accusecl AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by Public Prosecutor AP High Court through the station House Officer, lndukurpeta Police Station, / SPSR Nellore DistrI'Ct ...Respondent/Complainant Pe{itI-On under Section 482 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the criminal PetI-lion, the High Court may be pleased to grant anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest to the petitioners/ 1st and 2nd accused namely Mekala Narendra Reddy and Mekala Manoj Kumar Reddy, in connection with FIR No. 19/2025 of- Indukurpeta Police Station, SPSR Nellore Dl'strict, registered under sections 109, 61 (2),126(2), 324(4), 353(3) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) . The Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the: arguments of SRI AMANCHARLA SATISH BABU Advocate for the: Petitl-oners, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent, the Court made the following [3504] THURSDAY ,THE FIFTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5727/2025 Between : Mekala Narendra Reddy and Others AND The State Of Ap Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1.AMANCHARLA SATISH BABU ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of B.N.S.S., is filed by the petitioners herein/Al and A2 seeking to grant anticipatOry bail in Crime No.19 of 2025 of lndukurpeta Police Station, SPSR Nellore District, registered for the offence punishable under sections 109, 61(2),126(2), 324(4), 351(3) read with 3(5) of BNS. 2. 2. Brief facts of the case are that, on 19.02.2025 at about20:40 hours, the complainant namely Mungara Malini is a widow women and having son namely Mungara Viabhav reddy together went for Shopping and While they were returning, one car followed their car and dashed and stopped in front of their car, and 7 unknown male persons with monkey Cap tried tO broke the glasses of the car wI-th knives, On Seeing that passers who were going on t!!e road stopped and on seeing them, the accused fled away. on the report of the complajnant, during the course of investigation, A4 was arrested on o8.05.2025 and he confessed that Al and A2 dI-reCted him and other accused to kill LW2. Hence, FIR. 3. Heard Mr.A.Satish Babu, learned counsel for the petitioners and Ms.P.AkhI|Ia Naidu, learned AssI-Slant Public Prosecutor. 4, Perused the record. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petl'tioners were falsely jmpl['cated in this case and the genesis of the matter lies jn the matrI-mOnjal discord between the daughter of the lst petitioner and the son of the de-facto complainant and their marrlage was happened on 15.04.2022. He further submI-tS that the petitioners have absolutely no connectI'On With the alleged I'nCident of attempted assault and damage to de-facto complajnant7s vehl'cle. He further submI'tS {ha{ the petitioners are respectable members of socI-ety, and theI-r arrest would not only be a personal huml-IiationJbut also cause signI'fiCant distress to their family and community. Therefore, prays to allow the crI-m[-niat p;etjtI-On. '\+ 6. On the contrary, learned Assistant public Prosecutor vehemently opposed grant of bail and urged to dismI-SS the CrimI'nal PetjtjOn. 7. The materI'al on record reveals that, the daughter of the lst petI-tjOner namely M.Bindu Reddy marrI-ed the son of de-facto complal'nant (M.Vaibhav Reddy) and their marrI-age was taken place on 15.04.2022. Thereafter, matrimonI-al disputes cropped between the family of the lst petitioner and de- facto complaILnant7s famI-ly. Moreover, the FIR does not disclose the names of the petitioners except for the confession of Accused No.4] there are no other materllal tO establish the proximity of the petitioners jn the offence. ln view of the above facts and circumstances, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail with the followI'ng conditions: i. [n the event of arrest of the petitioners, the petitioners shall be enlarged on bail on executing a personal bond for a sum of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand only) with two sureties each for the II'ke Sum each to the Satisfaction Of the COnCerned Investigating Officer; ii. The petitioners shall mark their attendance before the Investigating officer once in a fortnight i.e., on lst and 15th of every month between 10.00 A.M and 01:00 P.M., till filing of the charge sheet. iii. The petitioners shall make themselves available for investigation by a police officer as and when required, and they shall not, dI-reCtly Or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade her from disclosing such facts tO the Court or to any police officer. 9. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. //TRUE COPY// SD/-M.SRINIVAS ASSISTANT R SECTION OF TEAR To, For A _ __~Iu I T`AK 1. The lV Additional Magistrate of First class, Nellore, SPSR NeIIore District 2. The Station House Officer, lndukurpet poll-Ce Station, SPSR Nellore District 3. One CC to SR[. AMANCHARLA SATISH BABU Advocate [OPUC] 4. Two CCs to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of Andhra Pradesh [OUT] 5. One spare copy PSR _,j*) +`.```.` .. ` HIGH COURT MRK,J DATED.. 05/06/2025 ANTlcIPATORY BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.5727 of 2O25 ALLOWED