APHC010010332026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] WEDNESDAY,THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 167 OF 2026 Between: 1. SELVAM ARJUNAN, S/O. ARJUNAN,AGED 33 YEARS, OCC DRIVER,R/O. KOLLATTUR KUPPAM VILLAGE,KANNAMANGALAM KUPPAMPOST-CUM-PANCHAYATHI, POLUR TALUK, TIRUVANNAMALAI DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU STATE, NATIVE OF D.NO. 34, INDHIRA NAGAR, OTTERI, VIRUPAKSHAPURAM, VELLORE TOWN, TALU 2. GOPINATH MURUGAN, S/O. MURUGAN,AGED 33 YEARS, OCC DRIVER,R/O. 205, MC ROAD, KANNIKAPURMA VILLAGE, KANDANERI POST, KALANIPAKKAM PANCHAYATHI, ANAIKATTU TALUK, VELURU DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU STATE. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP BY ITS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH,AT AMARAVATI. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. D PURNA CHANDRA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order : The Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’), seeking to enlarge the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 and 2 on bail in Crime No. 57 of 2025 of RSASTF Police Station, Tirupati District, registered against the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 and 2 herein for the offence punishable under Sections 303(2) read with 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 20(1)(d)(i)(a) read with 20(1)(c)(ii)(iii)(iv)(x), Section 36(a) read with 32-A, Section 29(4)(a)(i) of A.P.Forst (Amendment) Act, 2016. 2. Sri D. Purna Chandra Reddy, learned counsel for the Petitioners would submit that the relief has become infructuous and petition may be disposed of. 3. Ms. K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of the State is in attendance. 4. In that view, the Criminal Petition is dismissed, since relief has become infructuous. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. __________________________________ DR.VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA, J Date: 21.01.2026 UPS