APHC010543972018 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3547] MONDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SURESH REDDY THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI CRIMINAL APPEAL NO: 2111/2018 Between: GUNDLAPALLE MUNIRATHNAM, RESIDENT OF NANDANUR VILLAGE, G.D NELLORE MANDAL, CHITTOOR DISTRICT ...APELLANT AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, rep., by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature of Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPODENT Counsel for the Appellant: 1.AISHWARYA NAGULA Counsel for the Respondent: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) 2 Crl.A.No.2111 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 IX Additional District and Sessions Judge, Chittoor, dated 17.05.2018 in S.C.No.156 of 2017, the sole accused filed the present Criminal Appeal under Section 374(2) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. 2. On 03.12.2025, when the appeal was listed for hearing, learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the sole appellant had died after 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, Chittoor I Town Police Station, confirming the death of the sole appellant. Death Certificate of the appellant issued by the Registrar (Birth & Death), Municipal Corporation, Chittoor, 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. 08.12.2025 SAB 3 Crl.A.No.2111 of 2018 2 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURESH REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUBBA REDDY SATTI Criminal Appeal No.2111 of 2018 (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice K.Suresh Reddy) Date: 08.12.2025 SAB