a- -----gJ\ lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT A L# THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2185 OF 2025 Betwee n : 1. Tupakula Kumar, (Incorrectly descrl'bed as Tupakula Kumar @ Srinl'vas Chowdary @ Anand Varma by the police), S/o Chitti, Hindu aged 34 yrs, Business, D.No. 57-27-110, Near ITI Junction, Kancharapalem, Visakhapatnam. (A1 ) 2. Peela Lokanand, (Incorrectly described as Peela Lokanand @ Rakesh @ Naveen by the police), s/o peda Apparao, Hindu, aged 44 yrs Business, D.No. 18-77/3, Old Registrar Office Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam. AND ...Petitl-oner/Accused 1 & 2 The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep by its Station House Officer Rajanagaram // Police Station East Godavarj District. Rep.by public prosecutor. High Court, Amaravathi. ...Respondent Petition under Section 482 of BNSS is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the petitioners/A-1 and A-2 on bail in the event of their arrest in FIR No.263/2023 Dt.02-06-2023 on the file of the Station House Officer, Rajanagaram Police Station, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of SRI JETTI SANTHI KIRAN Advocate for the Petitioner, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent, and the Court made the following ORDER: I? + HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K. SREENIVASA REDDY criminal Petition No.2185 of 2025 Order: This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioners herein/Al and A2, seeking anticipatory bail, in connection with crime No.263 of 2023 of Rajanagaram Police station, East Godavari district. 2. A case has been registered against the Petitioners herein and others for the offence punishable under Section 392 IPC. 3. Case Of the Prosecution, in brief, iS that the de faCfo complainant is running a flour mill. About 10 days prior to the date of offence, one Kesavarapu Krishna Kishore, the friend of the de facfo complainant, told that they WOuld get commission amount by exchanging Rs.50.00 Lakhs of cash of Rs.500/_ notes to Rs.60.00 Lakhs of Cash Of Rs.2000/- notes and that said Kishore introduced a Person by name Murthy to the de facfo complainant and said Murfhy informed him tO bring Cash tO Konthamuru Village. On that, the de faCtO COmPIainant along with Akula Putraiah, Kishore Went there and that the Said Murthy along with Ramalingaiah approached them and introduced One 2 f/ Naveen. Meanwhile, four persons reached there in a Car and threatened them to kill and took away the amount of Rs.50,00,000/-and escaped along with Naveen. Basing on the report given by the de facto complainant, the present case has been registered against the accused on 02.06.2023. 4. Heard. Perused the record. 5. A perusal of the material on record goes to show that basing on the confessional statement of co-accused, names of the petitioners herein were shown as accused in the present crime. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submitted that entire investigation is completed. 6. In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners herein/Al and A2 on the following conditions. i) ln the event.of arrest of the petitioners herel'n/Al and A2 in the aforesaid crime, they shall be enlarged on bail on their executing personal bonds for a sum of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only) each with two sureties of the like sum each to the satisfaction of the concerned Arresting Officer. ii) Petitioners shall make themselves available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required, and they @ try I: To, sha" not, directly or indirectly, make any I|nduCement, threat or promI'Se to any person acquainted wI'th the facts of the case so as to dI-SSuade him from dI'SCIOSl-ng Such facts tO the Court or to any police officer. ill) PetI'tiOners shall appear before the station House officer concerned once in a week i.e., on every sunday between 10.00 AM and 1.00 PM till filing of the charge sheet. 7. Accordingly, the criminal Petition I'S allowed. As a sequel thereto, the miscellaneous petl'tions, I'f any, pendI'ng jn this Criml|naI Petjtjon shall stand closed. SD/-M.SRJNIVAS ASSISTANT: I /ITRUE COPY// For A 1. The station House officer, Rajanagaram poll-ce station, East Godavari Djstrjct. 2. One cc to sRl. JETTI SANTHI KIRAN, Advocate [opuc] 3. Two cos to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, Hl-gh court of Andhra pradesh. [OUT] 4. One spare copy KN ) // u i ~ HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED :27/03/2025 ORDER - CRLP.No.2185 of 2025 ALLOWED RE-S*i ¥.\ I:{I= i28 WNR ffi\ E=-E=1