APHC010655272025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3521]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

MONDAY,THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 12560/2025 Between:

Pottepogu Swaroop Kumar ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S)

Others Counsel for the Petitioner/accused:

1. J U M V PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S):

1. BOPPUDI ALEKHYA

2. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

3. LEGAL AID The Court made the following:

ORDER:

The Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’), seeking to enlarge the Petitioner/Accused No.1 on bail in Crime No.225 of 2025 of Piduguralla Police Station, Palnadu District, registered against the Petitioner/Accused No.1 herein for the offences punishable under Sections

109(1) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNS’).

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor and the learned Legal-Aid counsel for respondent No.2.

Perused the record.

3. Ms.B.Alekhya, learned Legal