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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI TUESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N l■A■NOs■4 AND 5 OF 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1251 OF 2025 Between: Kota Sairam Swaroop, S/o.Ramesh, aged 32 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. (Presently residing at 722 East ST, Findlay, Ohio State, 45840) Kota Ramesh, S/o.Ramulu, aged 57 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. Kota Parvathi, W/o.Ramesh, aged 50 years, R/o.3-219/73, Fiat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. N.Gangadhar Rao, S/o.Venkata Subba Ratnam, aged about 55 years, R/o.C-39, Rain Tree Park, Nambur Village, Guntur District-522510 . 1. 2. 3. 4. ...Petitioners/Accused-1 to 4 AND
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1. Hima Bindu Reddy, D/o.Damodhar Reddy, aged 28 years, Occ:Pvt V Employee R/o.29-1379/5/A, Plot No.4, Road No. 12, Kakatiya Nagar, Neredmet, Telangana State. ...Respondent/Defacto Complainant
2. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P, at Amravati, Guntur District. ... Respondent/Complainant Petition filed under Section 528 of BNSS, praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to quash the proceedings in Crime No.179 of 2024 before the Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District, dated 28.08.2024 U/s.417/420,376(2), 504, 506 r/w 34 IPC as against the Petitioners/Accused No.l to 4 herein. I.A. NO: 2 OF 2025 Petition filed under Section 528 of BNSS (Under Section 482 of Cr.P.C) praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to stay all further proceedings, including personal appearance of the petitioners/Accused in Crime No.179 of 2024 before the Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District dated 28.08.2024 U/s.417, 420,376(2), 504, 506 r/w 34 IPC, pending disposal of the above Criminal Petition. I.A. NO: 3 OF 2025 Petition filed under Section 528 of BNsS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to dispense with petitioner No.l physical present before this Court on the date of recording the compromise in CRLP No. 1251
of 2025 for quashing of proceedings in Crime No. 179 of 2024 before Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District.
I.A. NO: 4 OF 2025 Between: Hima Bin Ju Reddy, D/o.Damodhar Reddy, aged 28 years, Occ:Pvt Employee, R/o.29-1379/5/A, Plot No.4, Road No. 12, Kakatiya Nagar, Neredmet, Telangana State. ...Petitioner/Defacto Complainant AND
1. Kota Sairam Swaroop, S/o.Ramesh, aged 32 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. (Presently residing at 722 East ST, Findlay, Ohio State, 45840)
2. Kota Ramesh, S/o.Ramulu, aged 57 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4 Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. 3. Kota Parvathi, W/o.Ramesh, aged 50 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. 4. N.Gangadhar Rao, S/o.Venkata Subba Ratnam, aged about 55 years, R/o.C-39, Rain Tree Park, Nambur Village, Guntur District-522510 . My Home Gardenia Apartments ...Petitioners/Accused-1 to 4
5. The State of A.P.Tanuku Town PS, Rep. through its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature, A.P, Amravathi, Guntur District. ... Respondent/Respondent
Petition filed under Section 359 (6) of BNSS read with Section 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to permit and compound the offence against the petitioners and consequently acquit them, by quashing the proceedings in Crime No.179 of 2024 before the Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District. I.A. NO: 5 OF 2025 Between:
1. Kota Sairam Swaroop, S/o.Ramesh, aged 32 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. (Presently residing at 722 East ST, Findlay, Ohio State, 45840)
2. Kota Ramesh, S/o.Ramulu, aged 57 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. 3. Kota Parvathi, W/o.Ramesh, aged 50 years, R/o.3-219/73, Flat No.C-4, Official Colony Road, My Home Gardenia Apartments, Karravarisavaram, Vundrajavaram, West Godavari District. 4. N.Gangadhar Rao, S/o.Venkata Subba Ratnam, aged about 55 years, R/o.C-39, Rain Tree Park, Nambur Village, Guntur District-522510 . ...Petitioners/Accused-1 to 4 AND
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Hima Bindu Reddy, D/o.Damodhar Reddy, aged 28 years, Occ:Pvt Employee, R/o.29-1379/5/A, Plot No.4, Road No. 12, Kakatiya Nagar, Neredmet, Telangana State. ...Respondent/Defacto Complainant
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2. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Tanuku Town PS, Rep. through its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P, at Amravati, Guntur District. ... Respondent/Complainant Petition filed under Section 359 (2) of BNSS read with Section 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to record the compromise by compounding the offences against the petitioners and consequently acquit them, by quashing the proceedings in Crime No. 179 of 2024 before the Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District. *Joint Compromise Memo enclosed (vide separate sheet) This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Eluru Sesha Mahesh Babu, Advocate for Petitioners and Sri Pabbathi Mahesh, Advocate for Respondent No.1 and the Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of Respondent No.2 The Court made the following:
APHC010058442025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] TUESDAY ,THE SIXTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1251/2025 Between: Kota Sairam Swaroop, and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND Victim and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitloner/accused(S):
1.ELURU SESHA MAHESH BABU Counsel for the Respondent/complainant{S):
1.PABBATHI MAHESH 2.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following:
2 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N l■A.Nos■4 and 5 of 2025 IN/AND CRIMINAL PETITION No.1251 of 2025 COMMON ORDER:
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The learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the St respondent/defacto complainant submit that the parties have 1 amicably settled their dispute and have filed lA.Nos.4 and 5 of 2025 accompanying the affidavit of the 1®* respondent/defacto complainant and tbe joint memo, seeking the permission of this Court to allow the petitioners/A1 to A4 and the defacto complainant to the case in Cr.No.179 of 2024 on the file of Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District. 2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner/A1 had filed a petition vide IA.No.3 of 2025 seeking to dispense with the physical presence petitioner/Accused No.1 as he went to USA for his livelihood and there he is working as a Software Developer. The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor reported no objection. Considering the same, the IA.No.3 of 1st 2025 is allowed. The petitioners/A2 to A4 and the respondent/defacto complainant are present in the Court. The parties were identified by their respective counsels. The identity cards of both the parties were verified. 3. The 1®* respondent submits that, pursuant to the intervention of well- wishers, she had withdrawn the allegations made against the
3 petitioners. She further confirmed that the compromise was reached Q voluntarily, without coercion or undue influence. Recording the submissions of the 1®* respondent, lA Nos.4 and 5 of
4. 2025 are allowed and the proceedings Cr.No.179 of 2024 on the file of Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District is hereby quashed. 5. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall
6. stand closed. SD/- A. VENU GOPAL RAO ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To
1. The Station House Officer, Tanuku Town Police Station, West Godavari District. 2. One CC to Sri Eluru Sesha Mahesh Babu, Advocate [OPUC]
3. One CC to Sri Pabbathi Mahesh, Advocate [OPUC]
4. Two CC's to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati [OUT]
5. Three CD Copies *Joint Compromise Memo enclosed (vide separate sheet) BSV PRK
% HIGH COURT DATED:06/05/2025 COMMON ORDER I.A.Nos.4 & 5 of 2025 In/And CRLP.No.1251 of 2025 0 ^ AUG 2025 )g SectjQpxVy^ I.A.Nos.4 and 5 of 2025 are ALLOWED ALLOWING THE CRIMINAL PETITION