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RAVI CHEEMALAPATI
Gandham Pallam Raju – Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Ravi Cheemalapati, J. - This Criminal Petition is filed under Sections 437 & 439 of Criminal Procedure Code ('Cr.P.C.' in short), seeking regular bail, by the petitioner/Accused-183 in Crime No. 127 of 2022 of Amalapuram Taluq Police Station, East District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 143, 144, 147, 148, 452, 151, 436 and 397 read with 149 of IPC, Section 32 of Andhra Pradesh Police Act and Sections 3(2)(v), 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (PoA) Act, 1989 (Amendment Act, 2015).
2. The facts of the case, in brief, are that on 24.05.2022 at about 4.00 p.m., on a call given by JAC of Konaseema Sadhana Committee, huge number of people gathered for submitting objections pursuant to issuance of Gazette notification with regard to change of name of Konaseema District, by violating the order under Section 144 of Cr.P.C. and Section 30 of the Police Act. The mob started rally at Kalasam Centre, Amalapuram Town and proceeded to Clock Tower Centre and in the meanwhile various groups of public came from four corners to the clock tower centre and formed into a huge mob.
Thereafter the mob moved to Collectorate and on the way to Collector
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Extra-judicial confessions made by accused persons before a police officer after the investigation has started are inadmissible as evidence.
The absence of specific overt acts against a petitioner amidst a large assembly precludes refusal of anticipatory bail under relevant IPC provisions.
Confessional statements made by an accused person to a police officer after the investigation has started are inadmissible as evidence.
In cases of unlawful assembly and rioting, the prosecution must establish that the accused had a common intention of committing an offence.
Confessional statements made by accused persons before a police officer after the investigation has started are inadmissible as evidence.
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