/ w APHC010384202025 Hii'H IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI 0 TUESDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 7859 OF 71)7!^ Between: Pamidi Sathyanarayan Chetty, S/o.Late P.Venkatrathnam Chetty, aged about 57 years, R/o.D.No.7-29, Nehru Street, Pileru Chittoor District. ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by Station House Officer, II Town Police Station, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. ...Respondent/Complainant Petition filed under Section 482 of BNSS Circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition High Court may be pleased to enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest in FIR No.194 of 2025 on the file of Kurnool II Town Police Station, for the offences under Sections 308(5), 351(3) r/w 3(5) of BNS and 66-D of IT Act. praying that in the the Counsel for the Petitioner: Ms. Sree Deepthi G Counsel for the Respondent: Ms.P.Akhila Naidu, Assistant Public Prosecutor The Court made the following: APHC010384202025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] TUESDAY,THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 7859/2025 Between: Pamidi Sathyanarayan Chetty ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.SREE DEEPTHI G Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following; ORDER: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT The Criminal Petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, petitioner/Accused No.2 for granting of pre-arrest bail in connection with Crime No. 194 of 2025 of II Town Police Station, Kurnool District, registered for the alleged offences punishable under Sections 308(5), 351(3) read with 3(5) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (for short ‘the BNS’) and Section 66-D ITA, 2020. 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’) by the of 2 2. The case of the prosecution, in a nutshell, is that A1 as the First Director, and petitioner/A2, as the Second Director of Kanyaka Infra Private Limited, took an amount of Rs.2,00,000/- from the complainant for the allotment of shops in P.S. Mall, located in Sy. No. 302, Seethamma Nagar, Tirupati, after the completion of construction of the Mall. The complainant paid the said amount through PhonePe in multiple installments on 03.02.2024 22.02.2024, 26.02.2024, and 01.03.2024. A receipt for Rs. 2,00,000/- issued on 01.03.2024. However, they neither completed the construction returned the money despite his repeated requests. Further, they threatened him to do away with his life whenever he asked for a refund. On 30.09.2024, when the defacto complainant went to their office to demand his money back, A2 to A4 extorted Rs. 70,000/- from him by putting him in fear and threatening him with dire consequences if he disclosed the matter to anyone. was nor 3. Ms.Sree Deepthi.G, the learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that the petitioner has not committed any offence; he was falsely implicated in this case; he is the sole breadwinner of his family; he is ready to abide any conditions to be imposed by this Court; and urged to grant pre-arrest bail to the petitioner/Accused. 4. Per contra, Ms. P.Akila Naidu, the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, opposed in granting of bail stating that investigation is not yet completed; if the r petitioner is granted pre-arrest bail, urged to dismiss the bail petition. he will repeat the same offence, and it iIS 5. Perused the record. 6. As seen from the FIR lodged by the defacto statement of L.W.1, there complainant and the are specific overt acts against the petitioner. Hence, this Court does not deem it fit to grant pre-arrest baii to the petitioner. However, the learned counsel for the petitioner requests this Court to grant the learned jurisdictional Magistrate liberty to the petitioner to surrender before concerned and move learned Jurisdictional Court an appropriate application for his release before the concerned. 7. In the result, the Criminal Petition is disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner to surrender before the learned jurisdictional Magistrate concerned and move an appropriate application before the learned Jurisdictional Court concerned for enlarging him on bail. The learned Court shall endeavour dispose of the application to on its own merits in accordance with law by giving due and sufficient before the learned Magistrate opportunity of hearing to the learned Public Prosecutor and pass appropriate orders within a reasonable time, preferably in two (02) days. Sd/- K KASIRAO ACHARI ASSISTANT REGISTER //TRUE COPY// SE ON OFFICER To, 1. The Station House Officer, District. Kurnool II Town Police Station, Kurnool 2. One CC to Ms. Sree Deepthi G, Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of AP at Amaravati 4. Two CD Copies [OUT] BSV sree HIGH COURT DATED:05/08/2025 ORDER CRLP NO. 7859 OF 2025 disposing of the criminal petition