1 APHC010037862026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] MONDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO I.A.Nos.3 & 4 of 2026 In/and CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 699/2026 Between: Shaik Firoz, and others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State of Andhra Pradesh and others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. SHAIK SHAHEDAZ Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2. SAI SUNDEEP MANCHIKALAPUDI The Court made the following: COMMON ORDER: The petitioners and the 2nd respondent are present. 2. The Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for brevity, “the Cr.P.C.”) / Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity, “the BNSS”), seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioners/Accused Nos. 1 to 3 in C.C. No. 5511 2 of 2018 on the file of the learned Additional Junior Civil Judge, Repalle, registered for the alleged offences punishable under Sections 448, 323 and 506 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for brevity, “the I.P.C.”). 2. While the Criminal Petition was pending for consideration, two applications came to be filed. I.A. No. 3 of 2026 was filed seeking permission to the petitioners to compound the offences, and I.A. No. 4 of 2026 was filed to record the compromise. 3. In the petitions, a joint memo was filed stating that a compromise was arrived at between the petitioners and the 2nd respondent at the intervention of family elders and relatives, and that the offences are compoundable. 4. In view of the compromise arrived at between the parties, I.A. Nos. 3 and 4 of 2026 are allowed, permitting the parties to compound the offences and recording the compromise arrived at between the petitioners and the 2nd respondent. 5. In the result, the Criminal Petition is allowed, and the proceedings in C.C. No. 5511 of 2018 on the file of the learned Additional Junior Civil Judge, Repalle, are hereby compounded. The petitioners are acquitted under Section 320(8) of „the Cr.P.C‟. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________ Dr.Y. LAKSHMANA RAO, J. Date: 09.02.2026 KMS 3 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.699 of 2026 Date: 09.02.2026 KMS 221