APHC010540062024 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: 8706 OF 2024 Between: 1. M GURU PRASAD, S/o M. Damodara Raju, Aged about 38 years, R/o Vanadurgapuram Village Vanadurgapuram Panchayat, Palasamudram Mandal, Chittoor District. ...Petitioner AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep. by SHO, Palasamudram Police Station, Through Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati. 2. M Sekhar, S/o Late Narayana Raju, Aged about 52 years, R/o Vanadurgapuram Village, Vanadurgapuram Panchayat, Palasamudram Mandal, Chittoor 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 No.92/2024 dt.25-10-2024 registered under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 351(3) r/w 3(5) BNS on 2 the file of Palasamudram Police Station as same is abuse of process of law and to meet the ends of justice 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 STAY all further proceedings including the arrest of the Petitioner/Accused No.1 in FIR No.92/2024 dt.25-10-2024 registered under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 351(3) r/w 3(5) BNS on the file of Palasamudram Police Station and pass Counsel for the Petitioner: A SYAM SUNDAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 3 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8706 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 petitioner herein (A1), seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR in Crime No.92 of 2024, of Palasamudram Police Station, Chittoor District, for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2) and 351(3) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 2. 2. Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor basing on the written instructions of states that, pending the Criminal Petition, police filed charge sheet in Crime No.92 of 2024, of Palasamudram Police Station, Chittoor District and the same was numbered as CC No.1151 of 2024, on the file of I Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division), Chittoor District and the same was settled before Lok Adalat vide Award dated 05.07.2025. 3. Copy of e-Court Status of CC No.1151 of 2024, on the file of I Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division), Chittoor District, is made part of the record. 4 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has not disputed the submission made by learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 5. Accordingly, this Criminal Petition is closed, as the main CC itself was settled before Lok Adalat. Interlocutory applications, if any, pending shall stand closed. ____________________________________ JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM Date: 18.09.2026 PSA 5 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8706 of 2024 Date: 18.09.2026 PSA