APHC010647462025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] WEDNESDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION NO: 33514/2025 Between: 1. MANNE SIVA SANKARA RAO, S/O KOTESWARA RAO, AGED ABOUT 54 YEARS, OCC- PVT EMPLOYEE, R/O 7-3-31, RAMALAYAM, BACKSIDE STAMBALAGURUVU, GUNTUR, ANDHRA PRADESH-522006 CELL NO.919160299185. 2. MANNE HEMA SRINIVAS, S/O SIVA SANKARA RAO, AGED ABOUT 28 YEARS, OCC- PVT EMPLOYEE, R/O 7-3-31, RAMALAYAM, BACKSIDE STAMBALAGURUVU GUNTUR, ANDHRA PRADESH- 522006. ...PETITIONER(S) AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, VELAGAPUDI, AMARAVATHI, GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. 2. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, MANGALAGIRI, GUNTUR, ANDHRA PRADESH. 3. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. 4. STATION HOUSE OFFICER, ARUNDELPET POLICE STATION, GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH-522002. 5. VARATHA NAGA LAKSHMI, VASANTARAYAPURAM, GUNTUR, GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. ...RESPONDENT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner(S): 1. VENKATA MOHAN RAO PATHAKOTA Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR HOME The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India with the following prayer for: “.... to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of mandamus, declaring the action of the Respondents No.4 in summoning the petitioners to their police station without any 2 registration of crime and threatening the petitioners to settle the civil dispute with 5th Respondent and involving in the civil dispute as illegal, arbitrary and amounts to abdication of statutory duties cast up on them and also violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondents 2 to 4 not to interfere with the life and liberty of the Petitioners and not to involve in civil dispute unless authorized by the law” 2. Heard Sri Venkata Mohana Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Ajay Babu, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home. 3. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home would submit that based on the complaint made by one V. Siva Nagamani, the petitioners were called to the police station for a preliminary enquiry, and that so far no crime has been registered against the petitioners. It is further submitted that the police have never interfered in the civil disputes between the parties. 4. Recording the said submissions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. However, the police are directed not to interfere in the civil disputes between the parties except under due process of law. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending shall stand closed. ________________________________________ Dr.JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date:10.12.2025 Asr 3 HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA W.P.No.33514 of 2025 Dt.10.12.2025 Asr