APHC010518812024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI FRIDAY, THE 18th DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2026 PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8348 OF 2024 Between: 1. RAMISETTI BULIRAMAKRISHNA, S/o. Nookaraju, Age 43 Years, Occ Cultivation, R/o Door No. 5-33, Vommangi - 533 430, Prathipadu Mandal, Kakinada District. 2. Gattem Swamy,, S/o. Ramakrishna, Age 26 Years, Occ Cultivation, R/o Door No. 4-127, Vommangi - 533 430, Prathipadu Mandal, Kakinada District. 3. Koppana Annapurna,, W/o. Veerabhadra Rao, Age 43 Years, Occ Housewife, R/o Door No. 7-87, Vommangi - 533 430 Prathipadu Mandal, Kakinada District. ...Petitioners AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P. at Amaravati, through its SHO, Prathipadu P.S, Kakinada District. 2. Konkipudi Satya, W/o. Sivalova Raju, Vommangi - 533 430, Prathipadu Mandal, Kakinada 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 call for the records relating to the proceedings 2 in FIR No. 256 of 2024 of Prathipadu P.S., Kakinada District, and quash the same IA NO: 1 OF 2024 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 to grant stay of all further proceedings in FIR No. 256 of 2024 of Prathipadu P.S., Kakinada District, pending disposal of the present Criminal Petition and pass Counsel for the Petitioners: N SIVA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 3 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8348 of 2024 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 petitioners herein (A1 to A3), seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR in Crime No.256 of 2024 of Prathipadu Police Station, Kakinada District. 2. 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.256 of 2024 of Prathipadu Police Station, Kakinada District, before the jurisdictional Magistrate. 3. At that juncture, learned counsel for the petitioners seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the present Criminal Petition with a liberty to challenge the charge sheet, in accordance with the law, if so advised. 4. 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: 18.09.2026 PSA 4 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8348 of 2024 Date: 18.09.2026 PSA