APHC010136992025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3521]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

THURSDAY,THE SEVENTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3379/2025 Between:

M IRIYALA SRINIVASA RAO, S/O SURYA NARAYANA, AGE 26 YRS, R/O D.NO.70-2-25/1, NEAR VSM SCHOOL, PATAMATA, VIJAYAWADA. NTR DISTRICT.

...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND T HE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Through Station House Officer, Governorpet Police Station, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati.

...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused:

AISHWARYA NAGULA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant:

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following:

ORDER

The Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for brevity, ‘the Cr.P.C.’) / Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity, ‘the BNSS’), seeking to quash the proceedings against the petitioner/Accused No.2 in C.C.No.1710 of 2021 on the file of the learned III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Vijayawada, NTR District.

2. Heard the learned counsel for Petitioner and the lear