EE, iq rr lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARA THURSDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JANUARY, ll^/O THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE t#* _drr, :PRESENT: ¥-'-- THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA RED CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 9512 OF 2024 teF¢A Betwee n : `..... Shaik Saifulla, S/o Yasin, aged about 34 years D.No.15-10-8, Ward-20, SPP Road, Ponnur, Guntur District. \rfrf \hagiv~#th, ...Petitioner AND ```,A+* The State-Station House Officer, Ponnur Rural P.S, Guntur District, Rep. by public prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Amaravathi`.i-'- \.}, ...Respondent \..-,-ife3.I \-- Petition under Section 482 of BNSS, 2023 & 438 of Cr.P.C is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in memorandum of grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to direct the Respondent Police to enlarge the Petitioner/Accused on Anticipatory Bail in the event of his arrest in connection with crime NoJ£/2020 of PonnurRural P.S, Guntu r District;rfz'- The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petition and the memorandum of grounds of criminal petition and upon hearing the arguments of sri venkata\JDurga Rao Anantha, Advocate for the Petitioner and Public Prosecutor for the Respondent; THE HONJBLE SRI JUSTICE K. SREENIVASA REDDY CB±P4INAL PETITIOr\I l\IOl9512 OF 2024 QBD EB± The Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the BNSS, is filed on behalf of the petitioner herein to grant anticipatory bail in connection wl-th Crime No.10 of 2020 of Ponnur Rural Police station, Guntur District, registered for the offences punishable under sections 120B,153A,153, 354D, 354A(3), 469, 471, 505(2), 509 read with 34 lPC and Sections 67 and 67A of the I.T. Act. 2. Brief facts Of the Case are that On 22.01.2020, the defacto complainant filed a report before the police stating that on 19.01.2020, there Was a newspaper Clipping in a daily newspaper with certain implicit allegations against her daughter. Pursuant to the said clipping, certain posts were allegedly posted and forwarded in some whatsapp groups & Social Media Platforms along with personal pictures of her daughter. 3. Heard. Perused the record. 4. A Perusal of the material on record goes to show that the whatsapp group admin is one Venkata Rosaiah. The petitioner herein had received certain viral messages from the said group. During the course Of investigation, the Petitioner herein iS Shown aS accused in the present crime. 5. Learned counsel for the Petitioner Submits that the Petitioner herein only received messages and he has not posted any of the I-i--f=3* t\ ES= + -- -I I:nee_ss=gneorocn\r=:=:=adptpo thMeo:ehoavtQSrap+ph^g_r_Cup, except rece'vlng the message on whatsapp Moreover, there IS no accusat,on as aga,Pst the pet,t,oner that he posted and c,rcu'ated the sald content 6 ln v,ew of above facts and c,rcumstances of the case, th,s court ,s ,nc',ned to consJder request of pet,tJOner for grant of anticipa{ory bail. 7,`e re_IeAacsceodrd:nnglby=HIno:hehISeVeexnet::\nh:s^ar_rest, petltIOner here,n shaH b:es rle::oaoSoe/: (oRnu pbea: sOtne nh I :h-a:::=:n::nn^:S:a\rpreersst: npaeltl :i : = rfoh re rae 'snusmh aol: Rs 10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand only), wlth two suretles each for t=h_n:a I :klesos uo : ceoancd:t I{OOntthheat: ta:=:f®Daae:I:II::nnOnno:: :.;he: I\::r::I:nsgu :eotIIlecse eoaffi:: aflo:I , and also on cond,t,on that the pet,I,oner sha" make hJmse'f ava,lab'e for Invest,gal,on as and when requ,red and that he sha" not cause any threat, ,nducement or promISe to the prosecut,on wltnesses :ohnecepr::I:o :: roe slhna I: :p±eeka:; : I: :§noer^et`:_I_:nee_ i:aOt:oe : u i:onu sw:tn =ffi::i r concerned once ,n a week , e on every saturday between 10 oo a.m. and o1.00 p.m., tj'' fi,'','ng of the charge sheet 8. Accordlng'y, the cr,mJna' Pet,®tl'on ,'s allowed :sD!-,sMfpJJA+BDHpA^14_RA RA O As = =s^Ti: N"TEffi r<r=--_ sEcTIOfi€ofFFICER To, //TRUE COPY// For 1. The Judjcl'a' 1Stclass Magistrate, ponnur. vip ` ) TL_ -, __ \ .- _._`v, , ullflu'. 2 The statlon Houng off,cer, ponnur Ru`rTffi~po'lce slat,on, Guntur D'®str,'ct. \d# 3. 4. 5. ivJ M one cc to sn venkata Durga Rao Anantha, Advocate [opucJ `\ofJ Two ccs to publIC Prosecutor, HIgh Court ofAP [ouTJ \`J,.J One spare copy offJ t* i_ir<(,,--I,tREx#i!E!Si!BlilBilRE8!ll HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED:02/01/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.9512 of 2024 ALLOWED 21 jAN 3fl25