ORDER :

G. Sri Devi, J.

1. This Criminal Petition, under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, 'Cr.P.C.'), is filed by the petitioner/A-3, for grant of anticipatory bail in Crime No. 290 of 2021 of Khanapur (II) Police Station, Khammam District, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 120B, 307 of IPC r/w. 34 of IPC.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner/A-3 the learned Additional Public Prosecutor representing the respondent-State and perused the record.

3. The contents of FIR states that as per the report submitted by the de facto complainant on 08.08.2021, the accused/A-1 to A-3 along with some others, hatched a plan, engaged rowdy sheeters by giving money to them and providing deadly weapons and entered into contract with them to commit murder against the de facto complainant with criminal conspiracy due to land disputes.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner/A-3 submits that there are land disputes between the petitioner and the de facto complainant and there is a civil suit in O.S. No. 526 of 2018, pending on the file of Principal Junior Civil Judge, Khammam. He further submitted that the petitioner/A-3 was at Shirdi on 08.08.2021 and h