COMMON ORDER:

These Criminal Revision Cases filed under Sections 438 and 442 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the BNSS are heard and disposed of by way of this common order, as they pertain to identical offences involving noticeably the same set of accused, all result from a connected factual condition.

FACTUAL MATRIX:

2. Criminal Revision Case No.1287 of 2025 has been filed feeling aggrieved by the order dated 30.12.2023 rendered in C.C.No.27 of 2023 on the file of the learned IV Additional District & Sessions Judge, Guntur, arising out of a complaint pertaining to a publication dated 20.06.2023 in the Andhra Jyothi Telugu Daily, wherein the accused persons, viz., the Company, its Managing Director, Printer & Publisher, Editor, and Bureau Chief, are alleged to have disseminated defamatory imputations against the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) by portraying a purported decline in passenger patronage, maladministration, and mismanagement under the incumbent dispensation; the State Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, contends that such publication constitutes libel calculated to malign the reputation of the Government and its offici