APHC010633552025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12226/2025 Between: 1. SIDDANI RAMESH BABU ALIAS RAMESH, S/O NAGESWARA RAO, AGE 35 YEARS, DAGGULURU VILLAGE, PALAKOL MANDAL, WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, NELAPADU AT AMARAVATHI. 2. MALLIKARJUNA RAO SIDDANI, S/O CHINA VENKANNA, AGED 45 YEARS, DAGGULURU VILLAGE, PALAKOL MANDAL, WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. MOBILE NO 8639048776 ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. M S P REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12226/2025 ORDER: The instant criminal petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C)/under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) has been filed by the Petitioner/Accused, seeking quashment of the proceedings pending against him in C.C. No.77 of 2021 on the file of the I Additional Judl. Junior Civil Judge-cum-I Judicial First Class Magistrate, Palakol, for the offence punishable under Sections 506 of IPC and Section 155(2) of Cr.P.C. 2. Heard Sri M.S.P.Reddy, learned counsel for the Petitioner and Mrs.K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of the State. 3. Learned counsel for the Petitioner would submit that the petition may be disposed of without causing any prejudice to the rights and contentions of the petitioner by dispensing the presence of the Petitioner before the Trial Court. 4. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor would submit that the Court may pass appropriate orders. 5. Considering the submissions, the Criminal Petition is disposed of without causing any prejudice to the rights and contentions of the Petitioner. However, the presence of the Petitioner/Accused, before the Trial Court is dispensed with, unless his presence is specifically directed by the Trial Court. 3 As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. _________________________________________ Dr. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date: 25.11.2025. UPS 4 HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12226/2025 Dated.25.11.2025 UPS 156