APHC010710552025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] MONDAY,THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 13450 OF 2025 Between: 1. GOLI RAMANJANEYULU, S/O NARASIMHA RAO, AGED 52 YEARS, OCC DAILY WAGE EARNER,R/O. H. NO. 11-293, BHADRAVATHI NAGAR,MANGALAGIRI TOWN, GUNTUR DISTRICT ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT AT AMARAVATI. 2. K JEEVAN SAGAR, S/O. PEDDA GEORGE AGE ABOUT 38 YEARS BAPITISTPETA, MANGALAGIRI TOWN, GUNTUR DISTRICT ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S): Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. V SUDHAKAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. KALAKOTI SUNIL KUMAR 2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 13450 OF 2025 ORDER:- The Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’), seeking to enlarge the Petitioner/Accused on bail in Crime No. 220 of 2025 of Mangalagiri Police Station, Guntur District, registered against the Petitioner/Accused herein for the offence punishable under Sections 352, 353(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 3(1)(R),3(1)(S), 3(1)(U) of SCs and STs (POA) Act and Section 67 of IT Act. 2. Heard Mr. V. Sudhakar Reddy, the learned Counsel for the Petitioner and Ms. K. Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 3. The case of the prosecution in brief is that one Kantheti Jeevan Sagar i.e Respondent No.2 lodged a complaint against the Petitioner alleging that the Petitioner abused in filthy language in Face Book and also transit obscene material in between castes and also publishing fake statements against the Police Officers and TDP cadre. Basing on the complaint, the instant Crime came to be registered. 4. Learned counsel for the Petitioner would submit that he was arrested on PT warrant and sent to judicial custody on 06.11.2025. He has been in judicial custody since then. The Petitioner is a permanent resident of Dhadravathi Nagar, Mangalagiri Town, Guntur District. If he enlarged on bail with certain stringent conditions, he may not interfere with further progress of investigation or hampering the investigation. So far, five witnesses were examined. Material portion of investigation with regard to alleged role played by the Petitioner is completed. 5. Considering the nature and gravity of allegation levelled against the Petitioner, his alleged role played in this case, and the period of detention undergone by the Petitioner, this Court is inclined to enlarge the Petitioner on bail with the following stringent conditions: 6. In the result, the Criminal Petition is allowed with the following conditions: i. The Petitioner/Accused shall be enlarged on bail subject to his executing a personal bond for a sum of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand only) each with two sureties each for the like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class-cum- Civil Judge (Junior Division), Mangalagiri. ii. The Petitioner/Accused shall appear before the Station House Officer, Mangalagiri Police Station, Guntur District, on every Saturday in between 10:00 am and 05:00 pm, till cognizance is taken by the learned the Trial Court. iii. The Petitioner/Accused shall not leave the limits of the State of Andhra Pradesh without prior permission from the Station House Officer concerned. iv. The Petitioner/Accused shall not commit or indulge in commission of any offence in future. v. The Petitioner/Accused shall cooperate with the investigating officer in further investigation of the case and shall make himself available for interrogation by the investigating officer as and when required. vi. The Petitioner/Accused shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the court or to any police officer. vii. The Petitioner/Accused shall surrender his passport, if any, to the investigating officer. If he claims that he do not have passport, he shall submit an affidavit to that effect to the Investigating Officer. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. __________________________________ DR.VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA, J Date: 19.01.2026 KK