APHC010438552018 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3547] MONDAY,THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SURESH REDDY THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI CRIMINAL APPEAL NO: 1718/2018 Between: RAJETI RAMA RAO, SC MALA BY CASTE, WORKING AS COOK IN VENKATESWARA HOTEL, RESIDENT OF VENKATESWARA HOTEL, BYE PASS ROAD, PUDIMADAKA JUNCTION, ANAKAPALLE, R/O. RUDRAPALEM VILLAGE, BONDAPALLI MANDAL, VIZIANAGARAM DISTRICT. ...APELLANT AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Through Inspector of Police, Anakapalle Town P.S., Represent by Public Prosecutor, High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. ...RESPODENT Counsel for the Appellant: 1.SRIDEVI JAMPANI Counsel for the Respondent: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) 2 Crl.A.No.1718 of 2018 The Court made the following JUDGMENT :- (Per the Hon’ble Sri Justice K.Suresh Reddy) Questioning the conviction and sentence passed by the learned X Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam at Anakapalle, dated 13.10.2017 in S.C.No.11 of 2017, the sole accused filed the present Criminal Appeal under Section 374(2) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. 2. On 05.11.2025, when the appeal was listed for hearing, learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the sole appellant had died after the grant of bail and during the pendency of the present Appeal. In view of the said submission, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor sought time to verify the said fact. 3. Today, when the matter is taken up, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor has produced written instructions furnished by the Inspector of Police, Anakapalli Town Police Station, confirming the death of the sole appellant. A copy of the appellant’s death certificate has also been annexed to the said instructions. 4. In that view of the matter and in view of the death of the sole appellant, the Criminal Appeal is liable to be dismissed as abated. 5. Accordingly, the Criminal Appeal is dismissed as “abated”. Consequently, miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending shall stand closed. JUSTICE K.SURESH REDDY ___________________________ JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI Dt. 17.11.2025 SAB 3 Crl.A.No.1718 of 2018 2 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURESH REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI Criminal Appeal No.1718 of 2018 (per Hon’ble Sri Justice K.Suresh Reddy) Date: 17.11.2025 SAB