APHC010487272024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: Between: 1. G SUNANDA, D/O. G. OBANNA 22/446, NAGULAKATTA DISTRICT, A.P. 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, THROUGH PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT AT AMARAVATHI, 2. SRI B NAGULAIAH, S/O. B. RAMANJAIAH, AGE SOCIAL WORKER, R/O. DOOR NO. 2 MANDAL, YSR KADAPA DISTRICT. 3. YELLANURU VENKATA RAMANAMMA, W/O. Y. SREENEVASULU, AGE 41 YRS, OCCUPATION HOUSEWIFE, VILLAGE, ELURU MANDAL, ANANTAPUR DISTRICT. Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. V VENKATA MAYUR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. B V APARNA LAKSHMI 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 7917/2024 G SUNANDA, D/O. G. OBANNA, AGE 31 YEARS, OCC NURSE, R/O. H.NO. 22/446, NAGULAKATTA STREET, JAMMALA MADUGU, YSR KADAPA ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, THROUGH PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, AT AMARAVATHI, VELAGAPUDI,GUNTUR DISTRICT. SRI B NAGULAIAH, S/O. B. RAMANJAIAH, AGE 65 YEARS OCCUPATION R/O. DOOR NO. 2-55, THONDURU VILLAGE YSR KADAPA DISTRICT. YELLANURU VENKATA RAMANAMMA, W/O. Y. SREENEVASULU, AGE 41 OCCUPATION HOUSEWIFE, R/O. D. NO. 2/105, SINGAVARAM ELURU MANDAL, ANANTAPUR DISTRICT. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): B V APARNA LAKSHMI PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH [3521] THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO R/O. H.NO. YSR KADAPA ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, THROUGH PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, VELAGAPUDI,GUNTUR DISTRICT. OCCUPATION THONDURU VILLAGE AND YELLANURU VENKATA RAMANAMMA, W/O. Y. SREENEVASULU, AGE 41 R/O. D. NO. 2/105, SINGAVARAM ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S): ORDER: This Criminal petition was filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for brevity, ‘Cr.P.C.’) / Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity, ‘B.N.S.S.,’) to direct the respondent No.1 to include the offences under section 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(1)(w)(i), 3(1)(w)(ii) of Scheduled Castes and the Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for brevity, ‘the SC/ST Act’) in C.C.No.598 of 2018 on the file of II Additional Junior Civil Judge, Tirupati. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the Petitioners and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 3. The leaned counsel for the petitioner submits that the investigation officer, after investigation, has deleted the above-mentioned sections and filed charge sheet. In that view of the matter, the petitioner has got an alternative efficacious remedy to approach the learned jurisdictional Magistrate or the Special Court, as the case may be, under section 14 proviso (1) of 'the SC/ST Act’, for filing a protest petition as contemplated under sections 190 r/w 200 of ‘the Cr.P.C.,’ / section 210 r/w 223 of ‘the B.N.S.S’. 4. With the above observations, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. _________________________ DR. Y. LAKSHMANA RAO, J Date: 04.02.2026 SAK 182 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7917 of 2024 Date: 04.02.2026 SAK