IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARA TUESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF MARCH , TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE / TprflH :PRESENT: ONOURABLE JUSTICE DR V R K KRUPA SAGAR ~ CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1226 OF 2025 / Betwee n : Reddy Naga Raju, S/o. Reddy Buchibabu Age 50 years, R/o. H. No.1-146/3, Kandrikagudem Eluru, Eluru District ...Petitioner/Accused AND The State of Andhra pradesh,a Rep by its public prosecutor High Court of Andhra pradesh at Amaravati Through the station House Officer Eluru Rural Police stat!'on, EIuru Dl'strict ...Respondent/complainan€ petl'tI'On under Section 482 of BNSS, praying that I-n the circumstances stated jn the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the crimI-nat Petition, the High Court may be pleased to dI'reCt tO enlarge the Petl-tioner/Accused on bail in the event of his arrest in connection with FIR No. 103 of 2024 on the filet; of EIuru Rural Police station, Eluru DI'StriCt I-n the interest of justice. ~ The Petition comI-ng On for hearing, upon perusl-ng the petition and the: memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of SRI PetitI®Oner, and of made the following KAMBHAMPATi RAMESH BABU, Advocate for the! PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent, the court I, THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE DR V R K KRUPA SAGAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1226 of 2025 ORDER:. This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of B.N.S.S. is filed seeking to enlarge the petitioner/accused on bail in Crime No.103/2024 of Eluru Rural Police Station, Eluru District registered initially for the offences punishable u/Sees.324, 323 lPC and later altered to See.323, 354 and 326 lPC. 2. Heard Sri K.Rameshbabu, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Neelothpal Ganji, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the Respondent-State. 3. Heard both sides. Perused the record. 4. The scene of offence is the precincts of a holy temple. For the Committee that has been managing temple, the victim woman was the Secretary by the time of the offence and the petitioner/accused was former Secretary. ln the backdrop of the allegations of defalcation of funds on the part of the petitioner, it was the petitioner/accused who approached the victim to permit him to sell books within the temple premises in the light of the fact that Swamy vari kalyanam was about to be performed in the temple. Denial on the part of the victim enraged they.a+;+/ EE f, accused who took out the mike road and beat on the head of the woman and all over the body. 5. Learned Assistant public prosecutor opposed the prayer of anticipatory bail by stating that the victim suffered grievous inJ'urieS and her modesty was outraged which have been alleged against the petitioner. 6, As one would notice that the offence was out of emotional imbalance on the part of the accused and it seems he intended to assert his supremacy and beat her. From the facts alleged it does not seem to be the case where the accused intended to outrage the modesty of a woman. The crime was registered on 25.3.2024 which means a year ago. The petitioner has been permanent resident of the address that was shown in the official records of the investigating officer. There are no crI-minal antecedents. so far eight witnesses were examined during investigation and the victim was discharged from the hospital. Considering the nature of the offence and the progress in the investigation, custodial interrogation does not seem necessary. Therefore prayer is granted. 5, ln the result, the criminal petition is allowed with the following conditions: i. In the event of his arrest, the petitioner/accused herein shall be released on bail on his executing a personal bond for Rs.15,000/- •-.isg, Jr (Rupees fI'fteen thousand only) with two (o2) sureties for a like sum each to the satisfaction of the arresting police officials and the petitioner is directed to join I|nVeStigatiOn; ii. After release, the petitioner shall appear before the station House offl'cer concerned, on lSt and 15th of every month between 10.OOam to o1.00pm for a period of three months,a and iii. that the petitioner is directed not to hamper the investigatI'On and tamper with the prosecut,Ion witnesses and they sha" not indulge in similar type of offences, Miscellaneous petI'tiOnS, if any pending, in the criminal petition, shall stand closed. .-.# SD/-K. KASIRAO ACHARl ASSISTANT GISTRAR //TRUE COPT SECTION FICER .To, ---`-`ln`lH I`Ar` 1. The Station House officer, EIuru Rural Police statl|on, EIuru District 2. One CC to SRI. KAMBHAMPATI RAMESH BABU Advocate [opuc] 3. Two CCs to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of Andhra pradesh [OUT] 4. One spare copy PSR J~ HIGH COURT Dr.VRKS,J DATED..ll /03/2025 ANTICIPATORY BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.1226 of 2O25 ALLOWED