The court established that a confession from a co-accused is inadmissible against another accused, warranting bail when no other evidence exists.

Respondent/Complainant Petition under Sections 437 & 439 of Cr.P.C, (New Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS , 2o23) praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to grant bail to the petitioner/A5 in with No.10/2025 of CID PS, Andhra Pradesh, Mangalagiri connection COUNSEL FOR THE PETITIONER : SRI. P SAI SURYA TEJA COUNS'EL FOR THE RESPONDENT : PUBLIC PROSECUTOR THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING ORDER APHCO10304552025 lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH E]HE]

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TUESDAY, THE FIRsT DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6214/2025 Betwee n :

1.GOPI PRASANTH ALIAS GOPl, S/O. NARSING RAO, AGED 42, R/O. FLAT NO. B-210, GIRIDHARI HOMES APARTMENTS KISMATHPUR, BANDLAGCJDA JAGIR, RAJENDRANAGAR, RANGA REDDY DISTRICT, HYDERABAD, TELANGANA.

...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND

1.THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH,I Through Station House Officer, CID PS, A.P., Mangalagiri Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati.

".RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT 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 pleased to grant bail to the petitioner/A5 in with Crime No.10/2025 of CID PS, Andhra Pradesh, Mangalagiri connection and to pass Counsel for the Petitioner/accused:

1.P SAI SURYATEJA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant:

1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following:

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya 'Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A5, seeking bail, in Crime No.10/2025 of C.I.D. Police Station, A.P. Mangalagiri.

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2. A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the offences under Sections 318 (4), 308(2), 351 (2) of B.N.S.

3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, one Murali Mohan Kadiyala submitted a report to the A.P CID Police by stating that his daughter Midhula Kadiyala has been living in Bay Area, USA since 2006. Recently, .she was approached by an I'ndiVidual Via faCebOOk messenger who started discussing crypto currency Investments. Initially, she refused to engage, but after her first small investment, she received a good return in her Bank account. Encouraged by this, she continued investing larger amounts eventually totaling approximately 1.7 Million US Dollars. AIong with report, all relevant documents submitted for investigation. The scammer has been demanding 184000 US Dollars, for which daughter of defacto complainant agreed to arrange in ongole, India within a few days and he is able to collect money through his gang members. Despite initial reluctance, the scammer agreed to accept the amount in Ongole. The scam.mer has been threatening, blackmailing and harassing the daughter of the defacto complainant daily warning her that if she does not pay the amount, he would freeze her funds. The daughter of the defacto complainant is a single mother and she is currently very distressed and frightened. since the situation poses like threatening risk to the daughter of '{he defacto complainant and his family, he submitted the report to take legal action. Basing on the said rgs- -

ft| I+a report, a case in cr.No-.10/2025 u/Secs.318(4), 308(2), 351(2) of BNS, 2023 at A.P CID Police Station, Mangalagiri was registered on 15.5.2025. On 21.5.2025, the Station House Officer of AP CID Police arrested Accused Nos.3 to 5 while receiving money from one Rambabu at H.P Petrol Bunk, Ongole and produced them before the court I concerned for judicial remand. Since then the petitioner has been in judl'cial cu