IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4963 OF 2025 Between: Kumbha Venkata Ramana, W/o Srinivasa Rao, Aged about 39 years, Occ: Revenue officer, R/o Mandapadu Village, l/c Vellavarthipadu Village, Medikonduru Mandal, Guntur District ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 AND 1. State of Andhra Pradesh, Represented through Public Prosecutor, at High Court, Amaravathi. 2. T. Srinivasa Rao, Assistant Director of Agriculture (R), Guntur, Guntur District. ...Respondents/Complainant Petition under Section 528 of BNSS, is filed 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 F.I.R.310/2024 registered U/s 318(4), 316(5) R/w 34 B.N.S., before Medikonduru P.S. Guntur, dt. 20-11-2024, against the petitioner/A.2. I.A. NO: 2 OF 2Q2fi Petition under Section 528 of BNSS -i praying that in the rdircumsfatices stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to stay all further proceedings in . connection with F.I.R.310/2024 under sections 318(4), 316(5) R/w B.N.S Before Medikonduru P.S. Guntur Dated 20-11-2024, including arrest of the petitioner/A-2. 34 This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri T M K Chaitanya, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor behalf of the Respondent No.1 and No.2. on none appeared for the Respondent The Court made the following order: APHC010235502025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4963/2025 Between: ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED Kumbha Venkata Ramana AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.TM KCHAITANYA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is 2. arraigned as Accused No.2 in Crime No.310 of 2024 on the file of Medikonduru Police Station, Guntur, for the alleged offences under Sections 318(4), 316(5) r/w 3(5) of the BNS. It is submitted that the only allegation against the petitioner is that, while working as a V.R.O., he exhibited dereliction of duty, and his computer login credentials were used by Accused 2 No.1, who generated fake CCRS Medikonduru Mandal. Guntur credited to ineligible farmers. cards for farmers of Vellavarthipadu Village. District, resulting in crop subsidies being 3. It is submitted that the accounts of the ineligible farmers submitted that the petitioner has cannot be made applicable when there petitioner. The petitioner on was misused by the 1 responsible for the alleged offences. said amount was also recovered from the even as per the complaint. It is also absolutely no role, and Section 3(5) of BNS are no specific allegations against the was working as a V.R.O., and the system which was St accused. However, she cannot be made 4. Considering the same, there shall Officer, Medikonduru Police investigation without taking any coercive this shall not preclude the sheet/final report. be a direction to the Station House to complete the Station, Guntur District, steps against the petitioner; however. Investigating Officer from filing the charge 5. Accordingly, this Criminal Petition is disposed off. As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, slj^ll stand closed. Sd/- B. CHITTI JOSEPH ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTfOKTOFFICER To, 1. The Station House Officer, Medikonduru Police S 2. One CC to Sri T M K Chaitanya Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CC's to The Public Prosecutor Amaravati [OUT] 4. Two CD Copies Station, Guntur District. High Court of Andhra Pradesh at SAM RAM HIGH COURT SAM HN,J DATED:05/05/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.4963 of 2025 ANOIT^ g 0 6 MAY 2025 m DISPOSING OF THE CRLP