APHC010666172025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI MONDAY, THE 12th DAY OF OCTOBER 2026 PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12838 OF 2025 Between: 1. Gottimukkala Venkateswara Rao, S/o. Koteswara Rao, aged 50 yrs,Occ Business, R/o.D.No.11-156,0pp. to APIIC Building, Mangalagiri, Guntur District. ...Petitioner AND 1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Amaravati. 2. Shaik Ruhana, D/o.Vali,Aged about 27 years, R/o.10 Line, Arundelpet, Guntur Town, Guntur 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. 697/2025 of Arundelpet Police Station, Guntur District, as against the petitioner/accused No.4 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 to dispense with the filing of the certified copy of 2 the FIR in Crime No. 697/2025 of Arundelpet Police Station, Guntur 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 to grant stay of all further proceedings in the FIR in Crime No.697/2025 of Arundelpet Police Station, Guntur 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 3 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12838 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 (A4), seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR in Crime No.697 of 2025 of Arundelpet Police Station, Guntur 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.697 of 2025 of Arundelpet Police Station, Guntur District, before the jurisdictional Magistrate. 3. At that juncture, learned counsel for the petitioner 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: 12.10.2026 PSA 4 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12838 of 2025 Date: 12.10.2026 PSA