IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2142 OF 2025 Between: Smt. Arikatia Kamalamma, w/o Late Pitchaiah aged about 61 years occ House Wife, 2"^^ Mother R/o Sambhamurthy Road N.T.R.District AP. Bhavaji Peta Vijayawada ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED No.3 AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature at Amaravati. ...RESPONDENT 2. Konda Keerthi, W/o NaveenKumar, Aged 29 years,Occ: House wife R/o Ambedkar Colony,Kanchikacharla Village And Mandal N.T.R.District . ...DEFACTO COMPLAINANT/ RESPONDENT Petition under Section 528 OF BNSS, praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to quash the Proceedings in C.C.No.l203 of 2024 on the file of the Hon’ble Judicial First Class Magistrate Nandigama N.T.R District including the personal appearance of the petitioner/Accused No.3 I.A. NO: 2 OF 2025 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased may be pleased to stay of all further Proceedings in C.C.No.1203 of 2024 on the file of the Hon’ble Judicial First Class Magistrate Nandigama N.T.R District including the personal appearance of the petitioners/Accused No.3. This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Krishna Rao M, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor (AP) on behalf of the Respondent No.1 The Court made the following: V APHC010093412025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) QMS [3457] ■ MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2142/2025 Between: Arikatla Kamalamma ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.KRISHNA RAOM Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the adoptive mother of the 1®^ accused and is arraigned as the 3^'^ accused in C.C. No. 1203 of 2024 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Nandigama, N.T.R. District, for the alleged offences under Section 85 BNS and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is living separately and never lived with the 1®‘ accused and the 2^^ respondent. It is > 2 further submitted that the petitioner appeared before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Nandigama, N.T.R District, on the first date of hearing. 3. Considering the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner, this Court is inclined to dispose off the quash petition by dispensing with the of the petitioner before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Nandigama, N.T.R District, in C.C. No. 1203 of 2024, subject to the petitioner submitting an undertaking to appear as and when required before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Nandigama, N.T.R District. 4. With these observations, this Criminal Petition is disposed off. sequel, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. Sd/- A. VENUGOPALA RAO ASSISTANT REGISTRAR presence As a //TRUE COPY// OFFICER SE To, 1. The Judicial First Class Magistrate, Nandigama, N.T.R District. 2. The Station House Officer, Kanchikacherla Police station, N.T.R District. 3. One CC to Sri Krishna Rao.M, Advocate [OPUC] 4. Two CCS to Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravathi. [OUT] 5. Three CD Copies MV HIGH COURT DATED: 03/03/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.2142 of 2025 k 0 2 APR 2025 | . Current Section DISPOSING OFF THE CRIMINAL PETITION