IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARA I/ TUESDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE --PRESENT: RE\\ THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDV L Between.I CRIMINAL PETITION NO.-1413 OF 2025 1. KasthurI' Venkateswarlu @ venkatesh Najdu, s/o KrI'Shnajah Age 53 years, occ- AgrI'Culture R/o Kakaralavaripalli VIllage, obulavarl'palli Mandal, Annamayya District, Erstwhjle ysR Kadapa DI'StriCt. 2. KasthurI' SI'Vajah, S/o Eswaraiah, Aged 58 years, occ- Agrl-culture R/o Kakaralavaripalli VIllage, obulavarI'PallI| Mandal, Annamayya District, Erstwhile ysR Kadapa District. 3. K.KotaI'ah NaI'du @ KotaI'ah, S/o Krjshnajah, Aged 48 years, occ- Agriculture, R/o Kakaralavaripa"i village, obulavaripalli Mandal, Annamayya DI-StrI'Ct, Erstwhile YSR Kadapa District. . . .Petitl-oners/Accused 1,3 & 4 AND state of Andhra pradesh, Rep. by I-tS PubII'C Prosecutor, HI-gh Court of Andhra pradesh at AmaravatI|. ...Respondent petition under section 482 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated jn the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the crI'minaI Petition, the High court may be pleased to grant Anticipatory Bal'l to the petitioners by directing the police to release them on ba" in the event of thel'r arrest in connection with crime No.i 190 of 2024 of obulavarjpalll' police stall-on, AnnamaI'ah DjstrI'Ct, Ion the I-nterests of justice. The petition~coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petjtjon and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of SRI PETLURI NAGA RAJU, Advocate for the petl'tioners, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent; PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.1413 OF 2025 Between : Kasthuri Venkateswarlu @ I.aPETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) Venkatesh Naidu and others AND The State ofAndhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Pet-ltioner/accused(S): 1. PETLURI NAGA RAJU Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the-rfollowing ORDER: I This Criminal Petition, under Sect-Ion 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioners herein/A1, A3 and A4, seeking anticipatory bail, in connection €'`J \\ i\¥ ce_--=-z=--`=f=-fi I/ with Crime No.190 of 2024 of Obulavaripalli Police Station, Annamayya district. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioners herein and another for the offences punishable under Section 118(1) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3(1)(r)(s) and 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015. 3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, there was land dispute between the de facfo complainant and the accused. While so, on 21.10.2024, Al to A4 entered into the disputed land and ploughed the same. when the de facfo complainant and others obstructed, Al to A4 are alleged to have grew Wild, abused them by touching their caste and beat them with a stick. The de facfo complainant received bleeding injury On his head and left elbow, one panta Narasimhulu received bleeding injury on his head and one Madagalam Prabhudas received blood injury on his right hand and rI-ght leg. 4. Heard. Perused the record. \=-.3 , ---a I. 5. A perusal of the material on record goes tO Show that there was a dispute between the accused and the de facfo complainant with regard to a land, as both of them are claiming the same. Learned Senior Counsel Sri Posani Venkateswarlu, representing sri petluri Nagaraju, learned counsel for the petitioners, Submits that an interim injunction was granted in favour of the petitioners herein on o5.01.2024 in lA No.9 of 2024 in OS No.2 of 2024 on the file of the learned Junior Civil Judge, Railway Kodur, restraining the de facfo complainant and his men from interfering with their peaceful possession and enjoyment of the property of the petitioners. In respect of the alleged incident said to have taken place on the date of offence, the petitioners herein are alleged to have caught hold of the de facfo complainant and that another person, who went along with the petitioners, is alleged to have beat the de facto complainant with a stick causing grievous injury to him. The said person is not shown as accused in the present crime. lnsofar as the petitioners herein are concerned+, I except stating that they caught hold of the de facfo complainant and others and abused them, pr,'ma fac,®e, no accusation has been made -against them that they are instrumental in causing grievous injury to the de facto complainant. Learned Assistant iZ= +` ~,_€ st|-- I, publlc prosecutor submitted that as many as 12 witnesses were examl'ned by the prosecutl-on so far and major portI'On Of jnvestI'gat,ton has been completed. 6. ln view of the aforesald facts and circumstances of the case, thl's court js l'ncll'ned to grant anticjpatory ba" to the petI'tl-Oners/A1, A3 and A4 on the followl'ng condl'tl'ons. D ln the event of arrest of the petlltl'oners/A1, A3 and A4 I-n the above cr,'me, they sha" be enlarged on baH on thel'r executing personal bonds for a sum of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only) each wl'th two suretl'es of the II'ke sum each to the satjsfactl'on of the concerned Arrestl'ng officer. " petI'tI'Oners sha" make themselves aval|Iable for jnvestl'gatI'On as and when required and that they sha" not cause any threat, inducement or proml'se to the prosecutl'on witnesses, lil') petjtjoners sha" appear before the stall-On House Officer concerned once jn a week I',e., on every saturday between 10,00 AM and o1.00 PM tj" fil,'ng of the charge sheet. 7. Accordingly, the crI-ml'nal Petjtjon js a"owed. As a sequel thereto, the mI'SCeIIaneous petitI-OnS, l'f any, pending Ion thI'S Cr,lml'nal petition sha" stand closed. ------__--------l.----------,-_ _ _ - S.d£.`£=¥_EF¥.¥c±9prAL 'rS`` &`o ASSIS-rA.NT RE`CT3!_q7-B Jfi n //TRUE COPY// For S±-CTION OFFlcER lO, .I 1. The Station House officer, obu'avaripaIIl' Poll'ce station, Annamayya District 2, One CC to SRl. PETLURI NAGA RAJU Advocate [opuc] 3. Two cos to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HI-gh Court of Andhra pradesh [OUT] 4. One spare copy PSR I. Ii HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED : 18/02/2025 ANTICIPATORY BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.1413 of 2025 ALLOWED \\\i \\\\\\\\\ `\\\ '`\ H