CRLP/1817/2025 of GARNEPUDI LEVI Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. SURESH REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No. 1817 of 2025 ORDER: As per the directions of My Lord the Hon’ble the Chief Justice, this Criminal Petition has been allotted to this Bench by notice dated 25.3.2025 and the same is treated as part of the roster effective from 26.3.3025. 2. This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’), is filed by the petitioner/Accused, seeking anticipatory bail, in Crime No.40 of 2022 of Prathipadu Police Station, Guntur Urban District, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 420 and 403 IPC. Subsequently the offences under Sections 120-B, 419, 465, 466, 468 and 471 r/w 34 IPC have been added. 3. The case of the prosecution is that D. Ravi Kumar being Ex-Branch Manager of Guntur District Central Cooperative Bank, Prathipadu branch had illegally and with a mala fide intention introduced some of his relatives and friends as farmers and he himself processed their loan applications by creating Revenue Records and created bonds at Sub-Registrar office and sanctioned 2 loan amount and credited the same in their Savings Accounts by misusing his power. He later withdre