CRLP/9184/2025 of Kotagiri Venkata Ramana Rao Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh on 16 August 2026

1. Kotagiri Venkata Ramana Rao, S/o. Jaggaiah, Aged 83 years, Occ Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District

2. Kotagiri Subba Rao, S/o. Venkata Ramana Rao Aged 53 years, Occ Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District.

3. Pamujala Narasimha Rao, S/o. Chinna Venkateswarlu, Aged 55 years, Occ Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District

4. Immadisetty Venkobu Rao, S/o. Venkata Subbaiah, Aged 65 years, Occ Cultivation, R/o. Rachakonda Ummadivaram Village, Pullala Cheruvu Mandal, Prakasam District ...Petitioners AND

1. The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati.

2. Harichandrarao Nalla, S/o N. Narasanna Aged 77 years, R/o. Marampalli Village, Dwaraka Tirumala Mandal, Eluru 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 entire proceedings in Crime No. 24 of 2025 of Pullala Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District and to pass 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 dispense with filing of certified copy of FIR dt. 07.05.2025 in Crime No. 24 of 2025 of Pulalla Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District and receive the main Criminal Petition on file in the interests of justice and to pass IA NO: 2 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 eased to grant stay of all further proceedings including attendance of the Petitioners in Crime No. 24 of 2025 of Pullala Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District, pending disposal of the main Criminal Petition and pass Counsel for the Petitioners: PETLURI NAGA RAJU

Counsel for the Respondents: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

Counsel for the Respondents: PATHURI SRINIVAS

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM

CRIMINAL PETITION No.9184 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 (A2 to A5), seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR in Crime No.24 of 2025 of Pullala Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District, for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 465, 468, 506, 447 read with 120b of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

2. At the stage of admission, this Court has not granted any interim order in the instant lis.

3. Sri K. Sandeep, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of respondent-State, basing on instructions, submits that the police have filed a charge sheet in FIR in Crime No.24 of 2025 of Pullala Cheruvu Police Station, Prakasam District, before the jurisdictional Magistrate.

4. 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.

5. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed as withdrawn, by granting liberty to challenge the charge sheet, in accordance with the law.

Interlocutory applications, if any, pending shall stand closed.

____________________________________ JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM Date: 17.08.2026 krk

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM

CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 9184 of 2025

Date: 17.08.2026 krk