APHC010707482025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 13623/2025 Between: 1. CHAMUDUGUNTA YASHWANTH, S/O MANOHARAGED ABOUT 14 YEARS, RAVURU, SUJATHAMMA COLONY, INDUKURPET MANDAL, SPSR NELLORE DISTRICT. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, ,REPRESENTED BY ITS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,THROUGH INDUKURPET P.S,HIGH COURT OF A.P. 2. XXXXX, XXXX ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S): Petition under Section 437/438/439/482 of Cr.P.C and 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court pleased to enlarge the petitioner/Child on bail in connection with Crime. No. 172 of 2025 of Indukurpet Police Station, Nellore, SPSR Nellore District and pass Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. SEERAM RAGHAVENDRA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 2 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 13623/2025 ORDER : The instant petition under Sections 480 and 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2024 (for short ‘BNSS’) read with Sections 437 and 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’), has been filed by the Petitioner/Accused, seeking regular bail in Crime. No. 172 of 2025 of Indukurpet Police Station, Nellore, SPSR Nellore District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 64(2)(m), 65(1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and Section 6 r/w 5(j)(ii), 5(l) of POCSO Act. 2. Heard Sri Seeram Raghavendra, learned counsel for the Petitioner and Mrs. K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor, representing the State. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petition may be disposed of giving liberty to approach the Juvenile Justice Board seeking his release since the parents are ready to take care of the individual. 4. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor would submit that the Court may pass appropriate Orders. 5. In that view of the matter, since the petitioner herein is child in conflict with law, the request of the learned counsel for the petitioner is considered. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. However, parents of the child is at liberty to approach the Juvenile Justice Board seeking release of the boy. 3 On filing such application, the Juvenile Justice Board may examine the case and take appropriate decision over the matter in the welfare of the child. Consequently, miscellaneous applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. __________________________________ DR.VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA, J Date: 27.01.2026 UPS 4 114 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 13623/2025 Dt: 27.01.2026 UPS