2026:APHC:38443 APHC010247512018 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3514]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SIXTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SURESH REDDY THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL APPEAL NO: 1155/2018 Between:

PUSHADAPU SUBRAHMANYAM, R/O.ALAPARRU VILLAGE, NAGARAM MANDAL, GUNTURU DISTRICT.

...APELLANT AND THE STATE OF AP, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of AP ...RESPODENT Counsel for the Appellant:

1.J KUSUMAVATHI Counsel for the Respondent:

1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP)

The Court made the following:

JUDGMENT : (Per Hon’ble SriJusticeK.SureshReddy)

Sole accused in Sessions Case No.520 of 2016 on the file of the Court of XI Additional District and Sessions Judge, Tenali, is the appellant. He was tried by the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge under Section 302 IPC.

2. Substance of the charge is that on 17.07.2015 at about 3.00 A.M., the accused hacked one Mandali Narasimha Rao (hereinafter referred to as ‘the deceased’) on his left shoulder and left side of the chest with a big knife causing his death,