CRLP/4948/2022 of METTA APPANNA Vs DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT

APHC010333812022 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3396] (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION No. 4948 of 2022 Between: Metta Appanna ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND Directorate Of Enforcement ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. M CHALAPATI RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. JOSYULA BHASKARA RAO(SC FOR CENTRL GOVT) The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, has been filed by the Petitioner/A.1 seeking quashment of the Proceedings in SC No.91 of 2021 on the file of the Court of Metropolitan Session Judge-cum-Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, Visakhapatnam. 2. Sri M.Chalapati Rao, learned counsel for the Petitioner/A.1 seeks permission to withdraw the Criminal Petition with a liberty to the Petitioner to raise all the contentions before the trial Court in defence and made an endorsement on the record to that effect. 3. Permission is accorded. 2 4. Sri Josyula Bhaskara Rao, learned Stan