APHC010465152007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3327] MONDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL APPEAL NO: 623/2007 Between: M.Somaraju ...APPELLANT A N D D Kumara Srinivasa Raju and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Appellant: 1. A DATTANAND Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 SRK, J Crl.A.No.623 of 2007 J U D G M E N T: Complainant, in Calendar Case No.102 of 2005 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Razole (for short ‘the learned Magistrate’) is the appellant. He filed the present Criminal Appeal challenging the Judgment dated 19.02.2007, whereunder and whereby the learned Magistrate acquitted the respondent No.1/accused of the offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for brevity ‘the NI Act’), in terms of Section 251 (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for brevity ‘CrPC’). 2. Today when the matter is taken up for hearing, appellant/complainant is present. Sri V.V.Satish, learned counsel representing Sri A. Dattanand, learned counsel for the appellant/ complainant submitted that the respondent No.1/accused is no more and the appellant/complainant is not pressing the Criminal Appeal, as his grievance in the present Criminal Appeal does not survive. An endorsement to that effect is made by the learned counsel as well as the appellant. 3. In view of the same, the Criminal Appeal is dismissed as not pressed. 3 SRK, J Crl.A.No.623 of 2007 Consequently, miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this Criminal Appeal shall stand closed. ______ _________________ JUSTICE K. SREENIVASA REDDY 28th April, 2025. DNB