CRLP/323/2025 of GUNDUMOGULA UMA MAHESH Vs STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

1 APHC010013492025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3396] (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY ,THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 323/2025 Between: Gundumogula Uma Mahesh ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. MALLAVELLI NAGA SAI LALITH KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following order: The instant Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of BNSS, by the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 to 5, seeking quashment of the proceedings in Crime.No.177 of 2024 of Attili P.S., West Godavari District against them for the offence punishable under Sections 351(2), 3(5) BNS, 3(1)(v), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(va) of SC and ST (PoA) Act. 2. Heard Sri M.Naga Sai Lalith Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of the State. 2 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that petition may be disposed of by giving protection to the petitioners vide guidelines of the Hon’ble Apex Court in Ar