APHC010056802024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI WEDNESDAY, THE 19th DAY OF AUGUST 2026 PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 712 OF 2024 Between: 1. VARDHANAPU PUROSOTHAMA VARA PRASAD, S/o.BuIlabbai, Aged 49 years Occ Business, R/o.Gandhinagar, Narasapuram, West Godavari District. ...Petitioner AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, and Another Rep. by its PP, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati. 2. Sri Balaji Venkata Ramana Chikatia, S/o.Venkata Swamy, Aged about 40 years, Occ Divisionai Panchayat Officer, Bhimavaram Division, West Godavari District. ...Respondents 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 may be pleased to call for the records to Quash the Crime No.60 of 2024 dated 30- 01-2024 of SHO, Palakoderu PS, West Godavari District registered under Sections 447, 188 r/w.34 IPC against the petitioner/Accused No.l and pass such IA NO: 1 OF 2024 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C and 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of 2 Grounds of Criminal Petition,the High Court may be pleased may be pleased to dispense with filing of the original certified copy of FIR NO. 60 OF 2024, dated 30-01-2024 on the file of SHO, PALAKODERU before this Hon’ble Court and pass such IA NO: 2 OF 2024 Petition under Section 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 may be pleased to stay all further proceedings in Crime No.60 of 2024 dated 30-01- 2024 of SHO, Palakoderu PS, West Godavari District registered under Sections 447, 188 r/w.34 IPC against the petitioner/Accused No.l and pass such Counsel for the Petitioner: NAGARAJU NAGURU Counsel for the Respondents: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) 3 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO:712 of 2024 The Court made the following Order: Instant Criminal Petition, under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed on behalf of the petitioner herein (A1), seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.60 of 2024, of Palakoderu Police Station, West Godavari District, for the offences punishable under Section 447 and 188 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. 2. 2. At the stage of admission, this Court has not granted any interim order in the instant lis. 3. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent-State, basing on the written instructions, submits that the police have filed a charge sheet in Crime No.60 of 2024, of Palakoderu Police Station, West Godavari District, before the jurisdictional Magistrate. 4. At that juncture, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the present Criminal Petition 4 with a liberty to challenge the charge sheet, in accordance with the law, if so advised. 5. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed as withdrawn, by granting liberty to challenge the charge sheet, in accordance with the law. Interlocutory applications, if any, pending shall stand closed. ____________________________________ JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM Date: 19.08.2026 PSA 5 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM CRIMINAL PETITION NO:712 of 2024 Date: 19.08.2026 PSA