/ • APHC010378592025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI I -Or WEDNESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBErIo TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE O PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 7775 OF 2025 Between: 1. Gollavilli Bharathi @ Gollavilli Nagamani, W/o.Siva Rama Krishna, aged 37 years, R/o.D.No.9-4-2/a, Maseedu Veedhi, Peddapuram Town and Mandal, Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh. 2. Chinni @ Saride Nagalakshmi, W/o.Lakshman Rao, aged 38 years, R/o.D.No.7-13-12, Kottamuru Puntha, Peddapuram Town and Mandal, Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh. 3. Siva @ Chandragiri Siva Krishna, S/o.Venkanna, aged 35 R/o.H.No.8-3-31, Chinna Veedhi, Peddapuram Town and Mandal Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh. years, ...Petitioners/Accused No.1, 3 & 4 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Public Prosecutor, .High Court of Andhra Pradesh, High Court Buildings at Nelapadu, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh. ...Respondent/Complainant Petition filed 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 release the petitioners on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest in Crime No.292 of 2025 dated 19.07.2025 on the file of the Peddapuram Police Station, Kakinada District. Counsel for the Petitioners: Sri V.Sai Kumar Counsel for the Respondent: Ms.P.Akhila Naidu, Assistant Public Prosecutor The Court made the following: APHC010378592025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) ■ [3521] i WEDNESDAY.THE THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT the honourable dr justice Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 7775/2025 Between: Gollavilli Bharathi Alias Gollavilli Nagamani and ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) Others AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitloner/accused(S): 1.VSAI KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1 PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT 2 % Dr.YLRJ Crl.P.No.7775of 2025 Dated 03.09.2025 ORDER: The Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’), seeking to enlarge the petitioners/Accused Nos.1, 3 & 4 in the event of their arrest in connection with Crime No.292 of 2025 of Peddapuram Police Station Kakinada District, for the offences punishable under Sections 308(7), 143(1), 137(1)(b), 351(2) r/w 49 of B.N.S and Sections 3(1), 4(1), 5(1 )(a), 6(1 )(a) of PIT Act. Case of the prosecution is that the complainant on 19.07.2025 at 2.00 2. hours lodged report stating that she joined as a maid in the house of accused No.1 for monthly salary of Rs.15,000/- and after passing one month, the accused No.1 forced her to do prostitution and earn money and induced that she will give Rs.50,000/- per month. When she did not agree for the same. accused No.1 took her signatures on empty bank cheques and also kidnapped her child by threatening with dire consequences and doing prostitution with her forcibly with the active support of Accused Nos.2 to 4 since four years and failed to give any amount. As there is no other go, when she asked the amount, accused No.1 necked out her by keeping her bank empty cheques, ATM Card, Bank Book, Birth certificate of child and Aadhar. 3 *.1 Dr.YLR, J Crl.P.No.7775 of 2025 Dated 03.09.2025 3. Sri V. Sai Kumar, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submits that petitioners Nos.1 and 3/accused Nos.1 and 4 have already been arrested and Criminal Petition in respect of them would become infructuous. Per contra, Ms. P. Akhila Naidu, the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, submits that there are specific accusations levelled against the petitioner No.2/accused No.3 and urged to dismiss the pre-arrest bail to the petitioner No.2/accused No.3. 4. 5. Perused the record. 6. As seen from the contents of FIR, there are specific overt acts leveled against the petitioner No.2/accused No.3. The alleged role played by the petitioner No.2/accused No.3 is that he used to arrange victim girls for the customers. Hence, his request of pre-arrest bail is not convincing and reasonable. However, learned counsel for the petitioners seeks permission of this Court to grant liberty to the petitioner No.2/accused No.3 to surrender before the concerned learned jurisdictional Magistrate and file appropriate application for his release. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed in respect of petitioner No.2/accused No.3. However, granting liberty to the petitioner No.2/accused No.3 to surrender before the concerned jurisdictional Magistrate within a period of one (1) week from the date of this order and move appropriate 7. % 4 Dr.YLR, J Crl.P.No.7775 of 2025 Dated 03.09.2025 application. The concerned jurisdictional Magistrate is directed to dispose of the bail application filed by the petitioner No.2/accused No.3 within a period of two (2) days on its own merits in accordance with law by giving due opportunity to the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor concerned. 8. The Criminal Petition with respect to Petitioner Nos.1 and 3 /accused Nos.1 and 4 is dismissed as in-fructuous. Sd/- K SRINIVASA RAJU ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER 1. The Station House Officer, Peddapuram Police Station, Kakinada District. 2. One CC to Sri V.Sai Kumar, Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of AP at Amaravati [OUT] 4. Two CD Copies To, BSV sree % HIGH COURT DATE0:03/09/2025 ORDER CRLP NO. 7775 OF 2025 > ^yv 10 SEP 2025 9^H ^ . Current beciion . ,-f" ■' DISMISSING THE CRIMINAL PETITION