APHC010019032025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] TUESDAY ,THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1174/2025 Between: Lekkala Pavan Kumar Chowdary, ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. C B ADARSH KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH. N I.A.Nos.3 and 4 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.1174 of 2025 O R D E R : 1. The instant criminal petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed by the petitioner/Accused, seeking quashment of the proceedings against him Spl.SC.No.149 of 2023 on the file of IV Additional District and Sessions Judge – Cum – SC/ST Court, Guntur. 2. The petitioner is accused in Spl.SC.No.149 of 2023 on the file of IV Additional District and Sessions Judge – Cum – SC/ST Court, Guntur, the defacto-complainant had alleged that the petitioner had committed the alleged offences under the pretext of love and proposal to marry the defacto-complainant. As the promise of the petitioner to marry the defacto-complaiannt could not materialize and the petitioner was avoiding the defacto-complainant after exploiting her, she filed a complaint. 3. I.A.No.3 of 2025 is filed by petitioner/respondent No.2/defacto complainant, seeking to compromise the offences between the parties. 4. Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, the defacto- complainant and the petitioner are present in Court and a joint memo vide IA.No.4 of 2025 along with the affidavit of the defacto-complainant stating that the petitioner herein had married the defacto-complainant after the intervention of elders and that they are now living under one roof as husband and wife. It is also stated that the defacto-complainant is a pregnant and entering 8th month of pregnancy. This Court after identifying the parties deems it appropriate to compound the offence as desired by the defacto-complainant in her own interest. 5. Accordingly, the IA.Nos.3 and 4 are allowed. Consequently, the criminal petition is allowed and the proceedings against petitioner/accused in Spl.SC.No.149 of 2023 on the file of IV Additional District and Sessions Judge – Cum – SC/ST Court, Guntur is hereby quashed. Pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stands closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N KGM/ NKA THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH. N I.A.Nos.3 and 4 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.1174 of 2025 Dated 04.03.2025 KGM/ NKA