APHC010322562022 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] TUESDAY ,THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4743/2022 Between: Mahammad Rafi and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. KATA SAMBASIVA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) 2. OMKAR D The Court made the following: 2 VJP,J Crl.P.No.4743 of 2022 ORDER: The instant petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short “Cr.P.C.”) has been filed by the petitioner/Accused, seeking quashment of the proceedings against him in Crime No.170 of 2022 of Rayadurgam Police Station, Ananthapuram District, registered under Section 498(A) I.P.C, 323 r/w 34 IPC & Sec 3 & 4 Dowry Prohibition Act. 2. Heard Sri Karumanchi Indraneel Babu, learned counsel for the petitioner. 3. Ms. K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, representing the State/Respondent No.1 is in attendance and would submit that charge-sheet is filed in this matter. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petition may be disposed of by giving liberty to the petitioner to challenge the same. 5. In that view the petition can be disposed of. However, the petitioner is at liberty to challenge the charge-sheet, if so advised. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. _________________________________ __ Dr. VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA, J Date: 28.01.2025 LSP 3 VJP,J Crl.P.No.4743 of 2022 144 HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Crl.P.No.4743 of 2022 28.01.2025 LSP