IN THE HIGH COURT-OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMAR I. WEDNESDAY, THE ll^,ENTY NINETH DAY OF JANUAFgrg`RE§k= TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 520 OF 2025 Betwee n : Nadendla Sarala @ Pusarla Sarala, W/o Pusarla Srinivasa Rao, aged 52, R/o H.No. 4-10-9, 3rd lane, Naidupet, Koritipadu, Chandramoulinagar, Guntur District. Petitioner/A6 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Through Station House Officer, (CID Police Station, Mangalagiri) Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati. Respondent/Complainant petition under section 482 of BNSS, 2023 (old Section 438 of Cr.P.C) 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 direct the respondent police' to enlarge the petitioner/A5 on bail in the event of her arrest in connection with Crime No. 25 of 2024 of CID Police station, A.P, Mangalagiri. 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 P VIVEK Advocate for the Petitioner and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent, the Court made the following S APHCO10O26352025 lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA EI PRADESH AT AMARAVATl (special original Jurisdiction) [3327] WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.520 OF 2Q2! Rei¥::la: sarala @ pusarla sarala ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.P VIVEK counsel for the Respondent/COmPlainant: 1. PUBLIC P`ROSECUTOR The Court made the follow-Ing ORDER: The Criminal Petition, Under Section 482 of the Bharat'lya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is filed On behalf Of the petitioner/A5 to grant antiCiPatOry ba" in COnneCt'lOn With Crime No.25 of 2024 of C.I.b. Police Station, Mangalagiri. ¢rfe--r---~ I,1-S I/ 2. A case has been registered against the Peti.tiOner herein and others for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 409, 468, 471 read with 120B IPC and Section 13(2) of the P.C.Act, 1988. 3. Case of the prosecution in brief is that: The branch head of Union Bank of India, Brodipet branch, Guntur gave a report alleging that five Persons, Who are Al to A5, worked in the branch. As per the said report, the regular auditor of the branch found irregularities in sanction and disbursement self help group (SHGCC) and related saving accounts of the groups, The bank conducted investigation and found siphoning of funds by transferring the amounts to saving account of different individuals, material alterations enhancing the limits without following SHG guidelines, crediting the loan amount to group saving account instead of individual saving accounts, keeping part of the loan amount in saving account for future adjustment etc. Some of the cheques related to Government sponsored schemes and issued in favour of other SHG group were transferred to individual saving accounts without verifying the genuineness of the payee. The enquiries made by the fy_--I E=--rf investigating officer revealed that irregularities Were deliberately committed. when the transactions were placed before the fraud mon-ltoring group, the transactions/incidents were classified as fraud. lt was also found that serious |lrregularities were observed in crediting of pasupu Kumkuma (SCheme by Government) cheques in saving accounts of 43 self help groups. The irregularities found were that the amount received was d'lrectly credited to individual accounts Without any authentication for the corrections made on the cheques. Instead of crediting the amounts to SHG group accounts and therefrOm tO the individual accounts, the amounts |were credited to individual accounts directly. 4. Heard. PerusedthereCOrd. 5. The accusation against the Pet-ltiOner herein iS that he Was not due diligent in discharging his duty. Except the Said accusation, there 'ls no other accusation against the petitioner herein. Learned COunSel for the Petitioner Submits that this Court, vide orders passed in crl.p4No.9773 of 2024, dated 10.01.2025, granted anticipatory bail to A2 and the Case Of the Petitioner herein/A5 also Stands On the Same footing tO that Of A2. ln view 4 /r of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case,_ this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner/A5. . 6. Accordingly, in the event of his arrest with-+egard to this crime, petitioner/A5 shall be released on bail on h6\r executing a personal bond for a sum of RS.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand only), with two sureties for the like sum to the satisfaction of the arresting police officials and ?Iso` on `condition that the petitioner shall make herself available for investigation as and when required and that she shall not cause any threat, inducement or promise to the prosecution witnesses. The petitioner shall appear before the Station House Officer concerned, once in a week i.e. on every Sunday between 10.00 a.m. and 05.00 p.m., till filing of the charge-sheet. 7. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. //TRUE COPY// Fort I SD/-K.TATA RAO Tol 1. The Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases-Gum-Ill ADJ, Visakhapatnam. 2. The StatI'On House Officer, CID Police Stall-on, Mangalagirl-. 3. One CC to SRI. P VIVEKAdvocate [OPUC] 4. Two CCs to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of Andhra Pradesh. [OUT] 5 Onesparecopy ER C7 HIGH COURT SRK, J DATED..29/01/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.520 of 2025 ALLOWED has**.`='..,` \-