APHC010543972024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] TUESDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8733/2024 Between: 1. BANDI RAGHAVA REDDY, S/O. BANDI SIVA REDDY, AGED ABOUT 42 YEARS, OCC PERSONAL SECRETARY PERMANENT RESIDENT OF DOOR NO.2/44-A, AMBAKAPALLI, LINGALA MANDAL, Y.S.R DISTRICT, PRESENTLY RESIDING AT DOOR NO.3-4-60, NEAR VIVEKANANDA MAIN SCHOOL, GUNTA BAZAR, PULIVENDULA, YSR DISTRICT. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, rep., by its Public Prosecutor, High Court Buildings, Amaravathi. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. V R REDDY KOVVURI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 Order: The Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity, ‘the BNSS’), by the petitioner/proposed Accused, seeking anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.409 of 2024 of Pulivendula U/G Police Station, Kadapa District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 196, 308(5), 351(3), 353(1)(c), 112(2)(b) read with Section 3(5) of BNS and Section 3(1)(r), (s), (t) of the SCs & STs (PoA) Act and Section 67 of the IT Act. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that in the absence of application of Section 111(2)(b) of BNS to the present facts of the case, offences under SCs & STs Act and other offences are punishable with imprisonment below 7 years. 3. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, representing the State, would submit that in the absence of application of Section 111(2)(b) of BNS in this matter, all the offences are punishable with imprisonment of below 7 years and appropriate directions may be issued to the police and dispose of the matter. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that recording the submission of learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, the petition may be disposed of. 5. In that view of the matter, since Section 111(2)(b) of BNS is not application to the facts of the present case, this Court directs the police to follow the procedure as contemplated under Section 41A of Cr.P.C. (Section 3 35 of BNSS, 2023) scrupulously as per the guidelines enunciated in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar and another1. 6. With the above direction, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. As a sequel thereto, the miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. ________________________________________ Dr. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date: 10.02.2026 ARB 1 (2014) 8 SCC 273 4 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 8733 of 2024 Date: 10.02.2026 ARB