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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
K.SREENIVASA REDDY
Perni Nani @ Venkateswara Rao, S/o P.Krishna Murth – Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent
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ORDER :
K. SREENIVASA REDDY, J.
"Notice to unofficial respondent.
Learned counsel for the petitioner(s) is permitted to take out personal notice to unofficial respondent by RPAD and file proof of service thereof, into the Registry within two weeks.
2. The petitioners in these Criminal Petitions are arrayed as accused in crime No.640 of 2025 of Nallapadu police station, Guntur district. They filed the respective Criminal Petitions seeking to quash the proceedings in the aforesaid crime against them;
3. Since all the Criminal Petitions arise out of same crime, common order is being passed in all the Criminal Petitions.
4. Pursuant to a report dated 18.06.2025 lodged by one Smt. Chili Lurdu Mery, originally, the aforesaid case was registered for the offence punishable under Section 106 (1) BNS . The allegations in the report lodged by her are that on 18.06.2025 at about 9.00 AM, her husband Singaiah left their house stating that either he would go to his work or he would go to see Sri Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy who was visiting Rentapadu of Sattenapalli Mandal on that day; that her brother Sarath Kumar received a phone call stating that the said Singaiah met with an accident and was lying near
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