lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI J/ FRIDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 24 OF 2025 Between : 1. Pitta Anand, S/o Adi seshunaidu, aged 39 years Private Worker, R/o D. No.2-49, Yerravaram Village, Yelamanchili Mandal, Anakapalli District. 2. Pitta Adi seshunaidu, S/o Venkata swamy, aged 65 years Retd Employee, R/o D. No.2-49, Yerravaram Village, Yelamanchili Mandal Anakapalli District. 3. Pitta Ammaji, W/o Adi seshunaidu, aged 60 years, R/o D. No.2-49, Yerravaram Village, Yelamanchili Mandal, Anakapalli District ...Petitioners/Accused No.1 to 3 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court, at Amaravathi, ...Respondent Petition under Section 482 of BNSS is filed, praying that in the circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the Petitioners/AccusedNo.1 to 3 on Bail in the event of Arrest in Crime No.170 of 2024 on the file of Yelamanchili Town Police Station, Anakapalli Districtby granting Antic'IPatOry Bail The Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of SRI T V S PRABHAKARA RAO, Advocate for the Petitioners, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent; I/ lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATl (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3327] FRIDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.24 OF 2025 Betwee n : Pitta Anand and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Pradesh counsel for the petitioner/accused(s): 1.T V S PRABHAKARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioners/Al to A3, seeking anticipatory bail, in connection with crime No.170 of 2024 of Yelamanchili Town Police Station, Anakapalli d-lstrict. -=L i=-i _ + 2. A case has been registered against the -Petitioners herein and others for the offences punishable under Section 376 lPC, section 5(1) read with 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and Sections 9 and 10 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act. 3. Heard. Perused the record. 4. A perusal of the material On record goes tO Show that marriage between petitioner No.1 herein/Al and the de facfo complainant took place on 19.06.2017. lt is alleged that the lSt petitioner herein/Al had sexual intercourse With the de faCfO complainant without her consent on 22.06.2017. Thereafter, in the year 2018, a case was registered against the Petitioners herein I'n Crime No.68 of 2018 of Yelamanchili Town Police Station, for the offences punishable under Section 498-A read with 34 lPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. ln connection with that, an agreement was entered into between the accused and the de racfo complainant on 26.03.2023, whereby they have settled their disputes amicably and it was agreed to pay an amount of Rs.12,00,000/- to the de facfo complainant towards full alimony, out of which 2,00,000/-will be a f[-- paid immediately after filing divorce petition and remaining amount will be paid after granting divorce. By virtue of the same, the de facfo complainant received an amount of Rs.2,00,000/-. According to the learned counsel for the petitioners, having received the said amount, the de facfo complainant has resorted in pressurizing the accused to part with more amounts apart from the agreed amount of Rs.12,00,000/-, when the accused refused to do so, the de facfo COmPlainant has resorted in filing the present complaint against the petitioners herein. 5. ln view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners herein/1 to A3 on the following conditions. i) In the event of arrest of the petitioners herein/Al to A3 jn the aforesaid crime, they shall be enlarged on bail on their executing personal bonds for a sum of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only) with two sureties of the like sum each to the satisfaction of the concerned Arresting Officer, ii) Petitl'oners/Al to A3 shall make themselves aval'lable for interrogation by a police officer as and when required, and they shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat `-brsria±` f, or promise to any person acquaI-nted wI-th the facts of the case so as to dI'SSuade him from djsclosjng such facts to the court or to any poll-ce officer. jjj) petjtl-oner No.1/Al only sha" appear before the statl'on House officer concerned, once I-n a week I'.e., on every saturday between 10.00 am and o1.00 pm, till filing of the charge sheet. 6. Accordjng'y, the criml'nal petjtjon I-s a"owed. As a sequel thereto, the mI-SCellaneous petl'tlons, l'f any, pendl'ng jn thl's criminal petitl'on sha" stand closed. s®?I-_a_. c H ITTI C\-I_ ` \\ AsslsTAti+ ` To, //TRUE COPY, SEcT,'o 1 The statlon House officer, yelamanchlI, Town POI,ce slat,on, Anakapa'll® Dl'strjct 2 one cc to SRI T V S PRABHAKARA RAO Advocate [opucJ 3 Two cos to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, Hlgh court of Andhra pradesh rOUT] 4. one spare copy PSR a.-i €>u of r/_ I JAM 2$25 ..3 .¥ \`\,( f*f \(` `.` `¢? :` ,.+n <' fi .Jl f+ HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED: 10/01/2025 ANTICIPATORY BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.24 of 2025 ALLOWED