APHC010634672025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] FRIDAY,THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12219/2025 Between: 1.ATHIRACHA VENKATA NARASAMMA, W/O RAMANJANEYULU ALIAS ANJANEYULU, AGED 49 YEARS, KOTHEPETA, SRISAILAM TOWN, NANDYALA DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH. 2.ATHIRACHA RAMANJANEYULU ALIAS ANJANEYULU,, S/O NARAYANA AGED 51 YEARS, KOTHEPETA, SRISAILAM TOWN, NANDYALA DISTRICT ANDHRA PRADESH. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND 1.THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, AMARAVATI. 2.ATHIRACHA ARUNA, S/O. ANJAN KUMAR, AGED ABOUT 30 YEARS, GUMMANAMPADU VILLAGE, BOLLAPALLI MANDAL, PALNADU DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1.M SAPTHAGIRI 2.M. SAPTHAGIRI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1.G VENKATA REDDY 2.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2 The Court made the following: ORDER: The Criminal Petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’) seeking to quash the proceedings against the Petitioners/Accused Nos.2 & 3 in C.C.No.14 of 2023 on the file of the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate, Vinukonda for the offences punishable under Section 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for brevity, ‘the I.P.C.,’) & Sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (for brevity, ‘the D.P.Act’). 2. Heard the learned counsel for the Petitioners and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. Perused the record. 3. The learned Counsel for the Petitioners submits that Petitioner No.1/Accused No.2 is the mother-in-law of Respondent No.2, and Petitioner No.2/Accused No.3 is the father-in-law of Respondent No.2. The Petitioners are aged about 49 and 51 years respectively. The trial is presently pending before the learned Trial Court, and the material prosecution witnesses have already been examined. A learned Single Judge of this Court has earlier granted an order dispensing with the personal appearance of the Petitioners before the learned Trial Court. 4. The learned Counsel for the Petitioners now urges this Court to make absolute the order dispensing with their personal appearance. The learned Counsel appearing for Respondent No.2 submits that there is no objection to granting the said relief. 3 5. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the Criminal Petition is disposed of, directing the learned Trial Court not to insist upon the presence of the Petitioners during the trial, except on crucial dates, namely for the purpose of examination of the petitioners under Section 313 of ‘the Cr.P.C’., and at the time of pronouncement of judgment. 6. In the result, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. As a sequel, Miscellaneous petitions, if any pending, shall stand closed. _________________________ DR. Y. LAKSHMANA RAO, J Date: 23.01.2026 VTS