CRLP/9110/2024 of BANDI RAGHAVA REDDY Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

THE HON’BLE JUSTICE Dr. V.R.K.KRUPA SAGAR CRIMINAL PETITION No.9110 of 2024 ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is filed by the petitioner seeking anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.411 of 2024 of Pulivendula UG Police Station, YSR Kadapa District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 308(5), 351(3), 353(1)(c) , 111(2)(b) and 196 read with 3(5) of BNS and Section 3(1)(r)(s)(t) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act. 2. Heard arguments of Sri O.Manohar Reddy, the learned Senior Counsel being assisted by Sri V.R.Reddy Kovvuri, the learned counsel for petitioner and Sri K.Sandeep, the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent-State. 3. Case of the prosecution is that there were obscene postings in social media as against Sri Pawan Kalyan and women members of his family. The de facto complainant is a member of Jana Sena Party. He was aggrieved by it. According to him, one 2 Mr. Varra Ravindra Reddy belonging to YSR Congress Party has been getting such defamatory and obscene material circu