APHC010412202025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] THURSDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION No. 21040/2025 Between: GUDE VENKATESWARLU, S/O. NARASAIAH, AGED ABOUT 61 YEARS, R/O. 1-37, VENKATESWARAPURAM, BOMMIREDDYPALLI VILLAGE, KANIGIRI MANDAL, PRAKASAM DISTRICT - 523111. ...PETITIONER AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARIAT, DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS, SECRETARIAT, VELAGAPUDI, AMARAVATI, GUNTUR DISTRICT. 2. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, D.G.P. OFFICE, POLICE HEAD QUARTERS, MANGALAGIRI, GUNTUR DISTRICT. 3. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, PRAKASAM DISTRICT, ONGOLE. 4. THE STATION HOUSE OFFICER, MARRIPUDI POLICE STATION, MARRIPUDI, PRAKASAM DISTRICT. ...RESPONDENT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. BANDLA PAVAN Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR HOME The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India with the following prayer for: “.... a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents, more particularly the action of the 4th respondent, the Station House Officer, Marripudi Police Station, Marripudi, Prakasam District, repeatedly calling the petitioner to the police station and making him sit there for prolonged hours without the registration of any crime or any reason or justification as highly arbitrary, illegal, unreasonable, violative of the Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India, 2 1949 and violative of the provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023, and consequently direct the respondents more particularly the 4th respondent authorities not to call the petitioner to the police station unnecessarily, without following due process of law and further direct the respondents not to take any coercive steps against the petitioner.” 2. Sri Bandla Pavan, learned counsel for the Petitioner would submit that Police are repeatedly calling the Petitioner to the Police Station without there being registration of any case against him. 3. Sri V.Farooq, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, on written instructions, would submit that, based on the complaint given by one Subbarao, a case in Crime No.84 of 2025 on the file of Marripudi Police Station, Prakasam District for the offences under Sections 79 and 351 (2) BNS has been registered against the Petitioner. 4. Recording the same, the Writ Petition is disposed of. However, Police are directed to follow due process of law relating to Crime No.84 of 2025 on the file of Marripudi Police Station, Prakasam District registered against the Petitioner. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending shall stand closed. ________________________________________ Dr.JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date:14.08.2025 Dinesh 3 HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA W.P.No.21040 of 2025 Dt.14.08.2025 Dinesh