CRLP/1010/2025 of M RAMESH Vs THE STATE OF AP

APHC010008502025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3327] (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1010/2025 Between: M Ramesh ...PETITIONER AND The State Of AP ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. THOTA RAMAKOTESWARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 O R D E R:- This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘BNSS’) has been filed by the petitioner, seeking anticipatory bail, in Crime No.617 of 2024 of Ongole Taluq Police Station, Prakasam. 2. A case has been registered against the accused Nos.1 to 9 for the offences punishable under Sections 61 (2), 316, 326, 62 read with 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘BNS’). 3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, accused No.1, Excise Constable, is the Verification Officer of Elite Mall No.08989 in Guntur Road, opposite to Mangamma College and Elite Mall No.08985 at Mangamur road, Ongole; that accused No.1, connived with accus