APHC010283282024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION NO: 14238/2024 Between: 1. P CHANDRASEKHAR REDDY, S/O. P. MALLIREDDY, AGED ABOUT 34 YEARS, OCC-CULTIVATION, RESIDENT OF KURLAPALLI VILLAGE, KANAGANAPALLI MANDAL SRI SATHYA SAI DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. ...PETITIONER AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT BUILDINGS VELAGAPUDI, AMARAVATHI, GUNTUR DISTRICT 2. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, PUTTAPARTHI, SRI SATYA SAI DISTRICT. 3. THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, DHARMAVARAM, SRI SATHYA SAI DISTRICT. 4. THE STATION HOUSE OFFICER, KANAGANAPALLE POLICE STATION, KANAGANAPALLE, SRI SATHYA SAI DISTRICT. 5. Y PEDDA CHENNA REDDY, S/O. PEDDAOBULESU AGED ABOUT 79 YEARS, OCC-CULTIVATION, RESIDING AT POLEPALLI VILLAGE, RAMAGIRI MANDAL, SRI SATHYA SAI DISTRICT. 6. Y CHINNA CHENNA REDDY, S/O. PEDDAOBULESU, AGED ABOUT 79 YEARS, OCC- CULTIVATION, RESIDING AT POLEPALLI VILLAGE, RAMAGIRI MANDAL, SRI SATHYA SAI DISTRICT. 2 ...RESPONDENT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. V NITESH Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR HOME 3 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION NO: 14238/2024 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India with the following prayer: “…to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction, more particularly a Writ in the nature of Mandamus, declaring the action of the respondents especially Respondent No.4 herein in calling the petitioner to the police station and making the petitioner sit hours together in the police station and forcing the petitioner to settle the civil disputes with the Respondents No. 5 and 6 by handing over the petitioners property situated in Sy. No. 229 to an extent of Ac. 17-21 cents in Dadaluru village fields of Kanaganapalli mandal, Sri Sathya Sai District is perse illegal, arbitrary, unfair, unreasonable apart from violative of Principles of Natural Justice and violative of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondents not to interfere in the civil disputes pending between the petitioner and unofficial respondents and further direct the respondents not to call the petitioner herein to police station without there being any crime registered against the petitioner except by following due procedure of law.…” 2. Heard Sri V.Nitesh, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Sri P.Ajay Babu, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home for the respondents. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the respondent- police are interfering in the civil disputes between the petitioner and the unofficial respondents and calling the petitioner to the police station repeatedly and making them sit hours together without there being any crime registered against him. 4 4. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, on instructions would submit that the respondent-police are not interfering in the civil disputes between the parties and they are not calling the petitioner to the police station. 5. Recording the same, this Writ Petition is disposed of. However, the respondent-police are directed not to interfere in the civil disputes between the parties except under due process of law and further directed not to call the petitioner to the police station in absence of any crime registered against him. No order as to costs. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. _________________________________________ Dr. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date: 05.01.2026. UPS 5 HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION NO: 14238/2024 Dated.05.01.2026 UPS