CRLP/11756/2025 of POLICHERLA CHENNA KESAVA RAO Vs THE STATE STATION HOUSE OFFICER on 10 September 2026

1. POLICHERLA CHENNA KESAVA RAO, S/o.Nagaiah, aged 52 years, CPM Party Leader R/o. D.No. 9-963/4, Sivanagar Colony, Kanigiri, Kanigiri Mandal, Prakasam District.

2. Koduri Lakshmi Prasanna, (A.11), W/o. Srinivasulu, aged 30 years. Coolie, R/o. D.No.2-3-247, Pathuru, 2nd ward, Kanigiri town, Kanigiri Mandal, Prakasam District.

3. Uriaganti Pitchaiah, (A. 12), S/o. Musalaiah, aged 41 years. Coolie, R/o. D.No. 2-75, Machavaram Village, Kanigiri Mandal, Prakasam District. ...Petitioners AND

1. THE STATE STATION HOUSE OFFICER, Station House Officer, Kanigiri Police Station, Rep.by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P, Amaravati.

2. Konakaluri Akshamma, (First Informant) W/o. Nageswara Rao, aged 48 years, R/o. Eluru Village, Podili Mandal, Prakasam District.

3. Kudumula Immaniyelu 2nd Informant, S/o Adam, aged 25 years, R/o. Machavaram Village, Kanigiri Mandal, Prakasam District. ...Respondents

Petition under Section 437/438/439/482 of Cr.P.C and 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court pleased to quash the FIR in Crime.No.335 of 2025, dated 12-10- 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 329(4), 115(2), 351(2), r/w 3(5) BNS, 3(1 )(s), 3(2)(va) SC,ST POA Act, on the file of the Kanigiri Police Station, Kanigiri, Prakasam District, subsequently altered as Section 329(4), 103(1) r/w IA NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C and 528 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition,the High Court may be pleased pleased to stay all further proceedings including arrest of the petitioners/A.10 to A. 12 in Crime.No.335 of 2025, dated 12-10- 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 329(4), 115(2), 351(2), r/w 3(5) BNS, 3(1 )(s), 3(2)(va) SC,ST POA Act, on the file of the Kanigiri Police Station, Kanigiri, Prakasam District, subsequently altered as Section 329(4), 103(1) r/w 49, 3(5) BNS, 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(v) SC, ST POA Act, vide Alteration Memo, dated 14-10-2025 and pass Counsel for the Petitioners: YADAVALLI RAMESH Counsel for the Respondents: VENKATA REDDY CHITTEM Counsel for the Respondents: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM

CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11756 of 2025 The Court made the following Order:

Instant Criminal Petition, under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed on behalf of the petitioners herein (A10 to A12), seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR in Crime No.335 of 2025 of Kanigiri Police Station, Prakasam District, for the offences punishable under Sections 329(4), 115(2), 351(2) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

2. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent-State, basing on the written instructions, submits that the police have filed a charge sheet in Crime No.335 of 2025 of Kanigiri Police Station, Prakasam District, before the jurisdictional Magistrate.

3. At that juncture, learned counsel for the petitioners seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the present Criminal Petition with a liberty to challenge the charge sheet, in accordance with the law, if so advised.

4. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed as withdrawn, by granting liberty to pursue legal remedies, in accordance with the law.

Interlocutory applications, if any, pending shall stand closed.

____________________________________ JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM Date: 11.09.2026 PSA

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM

CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11756 of 2025

Date: 11.09.2026 PSA