ORDER:

The Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNS S ’), seeking to enlarge the petitioner/sole accused on bail in Cr.No.165/2025 of Peddamudiam Police Station, YSR Kadapa District, registered against the petitioner/sole accused herein for the offence punishable under Sections 118 (1), 351(2) and 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita ( BNS ), 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNS ’).

2. Material averments stemming from the prosecution are that on 18.06.2025 at 10:00 p.m., at the residential premises of the complainant situated in Papayipalli village, Peddamudiam Mandal, the accused, Malkireddy Ramana Reddy, criminally intimidated the complainant, Avula Obulesu, by threatening to cause death to him and his son, Narasimhudu. In furtherance of the said criminal intimidation, the accused attempted to assault the complainant with a stick, aiming a blow to his head. However, the complainant, in an act of self-preservation, raised his left hand to shield himself, resulting in the stick striking his left wrist and thereby caused a swelling injury. Upon witnessing the said incident, the complainant’s daughter-in-law