APHCOi 0326122025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JULY | TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6686 OF 2025 Between: 1. Vidadala Rajini, W/o. Vidadala Kumara Swamy, Aged about 34 years, R/o. D.No.30-137, Main Road, Purushothama Patnam, Chilakaluripet , Palnadu District, Erstwhile Guntur District. 2. Devineni Avinash, S/o. Late Raja Sekhar, Aged about 37 years, R/o. H. No. 48-4-16, Ashok Gardens, Gunadala, Vijayawada, NTR District. ...Petitioners/Accused No.5 & 6 AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court at Nelapadu Amaravati, through the Station House Officer, Sattenapalli Rural P.S., Palnadu District. 2. Busiraju Lakshmi, W/o. Veera Raghavalu, Aged about 32 years, Occ: VRO, Rentapalla, Palnadu District. ...Respondent/Complainant lA NO: 2 OF 2025 Petition under 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to grant stay of all further proceedings in Crime No. 74 of 2025 on the" File of Sattenapalli Rural PS, Palnadu District dated disposal of the main Criminal Petition. Counsel for the Petitioners: Sri S Dushyanth Reddy Counsel for the Respondent No.1: Public Prosecutor Counsel for the Respondent No.2: None Appeared The Court made the following order: 18.06.2025, pending APHC010326122025 Hiss ™E HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH at aa/iaravati (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE -r.T-.. PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: fi686/2Q2fi [3327] Between: Vidadala Rajini and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others Counsel for the Petitioner/accusedfS): 1.S DUSHYANTH REDDY The Court made the following: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) ORDER:- This Criminal Petition, filed on behalf of the under Section 528 of BNSS, has been petitioners herein/A5 and A6 to quash the proceedings in Crime No.74 of 2025 of Sattenapalli Rural Police Station, Palnadu District, registered for the offences punishable Sections 223(a), 126(2) and 189(2) read with 190 of the BNS. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners, has confined his under after arguing for some time, argument to the extent of protecting the petitioners coercive action by the police on the ground that the 0 ences alleged are punishable with imprisonment of less than years and prays this Court to direct the herein from the seven police to follow the procedure of the Bharatiya Nagarik as contemplated under Section 35(3) Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. \ \ ■ II 2 3. On the other hand, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor oppose the same and concurred with the submission learned counsel for the petitioners for the alleged are punishable with imprisonment of less than Heard. Perused the material on record. did not made by the reason that the offences seven years. 4. 5. Since the offences alleged are punishable with imprisonment of less than seven years, this Court directs the police to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 scrupulously, as per the guidelines enunciated in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar and another^ 6. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions, if any pending, in the Criminal Petition shall stand closed. I ^ jt 1(2014) 8 see 273 Sd/- G HELA NAIDU ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To, 1. The Station House Officer, Sattenapalli Police Station, Palnadu District. 2. One CC to Sri S Dushyanth Reddy Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CC's to The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati [OUT] 4. Two CD Copies SAM NM 4 HIGH COURT DATED:02/07/2025 ORDER CRLP No. 6686 of 2025 S 19JUL 2025 /S Ov m., oa/j ^7/ ^ Current Section ^ -Vi,. DISPOSING OF THE CRLP