IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI THURSDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6025 OF 2025 Between: Chirumamilla Venkata Rao, [A2], S/o.Venkateswarlu R/o. Voppicherfa village, Karampudi Mandal, Guntur I, Hindu, aged 62 years, Palanadu District ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, through S.H.O., r Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh 2. Mamillapalli Sivaranjani, @ Amrutha [Defacto Complainant] Rao, Hindu, aged 32 years, R/o.Drivers Colony, Bapatia Bapatia Town P.S., Rep. by i, at Amaravati. W/o.Srinivasa Guntur District ...Respondents Petition under Section 482 circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds the High Court may be pleased to quash the 2024 of Bapatia Town Police Station. I.A. NO: 2 OF 207^ of Cr.P.C praying that in the of Criminal Petition, proceedings in Cr.No.383 of Petition under Section 528 of BNSS corresponding to Section 482 of praying that In the circumstances stated In the Memorandum of Cr.P.C, / J Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to stay all further proceedings including arrest of the petitioner/A2 in Cr.No.383 of 2024 of Bapatia Town Police Station pending the Criminal Petition before this Hon’ble Court in the interest of Justice. This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Habibulla Shaik, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor behalf of the Respondent No.1. on The Court made the following: 1 HN,J Crl.P.No.6025 2025 APHC010287572025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ATAMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY ,THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6025/2025 Between: Chirumamilla Venkata Rao ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.HABIBULLASHAIK Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR • f 2 HN,J Crl.P.No.6025_2025 The Court made the following Order: The petitioner is arraigned as Accused No.2 in FIR No.383 of 2024 the file of Bapatia Town Police Station, Bapatia District, for the under Sections 420, 506 r/w 34 of the IPC. 1. on alleged offence 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 3. Though the learned counsel for the petitioner filed this petition seeking the quashing of the FIR, he has, however, restricted the relief to the directing the Investigating Officer to follow the procedure prescribed Section 35(3) of the BNSS, and the guidelines prescribed by the Apex Court i Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar\ extent of under in 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 Bapatia Town Police Station, Bapatia District, to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, “BNSS”) insofar as the petitioners are concerned. 1 (2014) 8 see 273 f 3 HNJ Crl.P.No.6025_2025 sequel, pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stand closed. As a Sd/- M SRINIVAS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// \ SECTION OFFICER 1. The Additional Civil Judge [Junior Division], Bapatia, Guntur District 2. The Station House Officer, Bapatia Town Police Station, Bapatia District (erstwhile Guntur District) 3. One CC to Sri Habibulla Shaik, Advocate [OPUC] 4. Two CC’s to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh [OUT] 5. Three CD Copies To, MV sree high court DATED: 19/06/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.6025 of 2025 ^ 2 4 SEP 2025 \%) disposing of the criminal petition