APHC010214032025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI THURSDAY, THE 17th DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2026 PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4548 OF 2025 Between: 1. Kona Krishna Kishore,, S/o.Rama Mohana Rao, Aged about 47 years, Occ- MPTC Member, R/o.D.No.9-166/6, Ankammathalli Street, Kankipadu, Kankipadu Mandal, Krishna District. ...Petitioner AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Through Station House Officer, Kankipadu Police Station, Krishna District, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Amaravati. 2. Vemuri Santhosh Kumar, S/o.Jacob Raja Rao, Aged about 46 years, Occ-Private Employee, R/o. Kankipadu, Kankipadu Mandal, Krishna District. ...Respondents Petition under Section 437/438/439/482 of Cr.P.C and 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 FIR in crime No.111/2025 of Kankipadu Police Station, Krishna District as against the petitioner/accused and pass IA NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C and 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased may 2 be pleased to dispense with the. filing of the certified copy of the FIR in crime No.111/2025 of Kankipadu Police Station, Krishna District and pass IA NO: 2 OF 2025 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C and 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition,the High Court may be pleased may be pleased to grant stay of all further proceedings in the FIR in crime No.111/2025 of Kankipadu Police Station, Krishna District including arrest of the petitioner, pending disposal of the above criminal petition and pass Counsel for the Petitioner: B V ANJANEYULU Counsel for the Respondents: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR Counsel for the Respondents: V R MAHESWARA RAO PALETI 3 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4548 of 2025 The Court made the following Order: Instant Criminal Petition, under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed on behalf of the petitioner herein (Accused), seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR in Crime No.111 of 2025 of Kankipadu Police Station, Krishna District, for the offences punishable under Sections 323 & 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(va) of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. 2. 2. At the stage of admission, this Court has not granted any interim order in the instant lis. 3. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent-State, basing on the written instructions, submits that the police have filed a charge sheet in FIR in Crime No.111 of 2025 of Kankipadu Police Station, Krishna District, before the jurisdictional Magistrate. 4. At that juncture, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the present Criminal Petition 4 with a liberty to challenge the charge sheet, in accordance with the law, if so advised. 5. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed as withdrawn, by granting liberty to pursue legal remedies, in accordance with the law. Interlocutory applications, if any, pending shall stand closed. ____________________________________ JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM Date: 17.09.2026 PSA 5 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4548 of 2025 Date: 17.09.2026 PSA