CRLP/1964/2025 of KARTHIKEYAN @ P S KARTHIK Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

1 APHC010091762025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3369] (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY-FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1964/2025 Between: Karthikeyan @ P S Karthik ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. D PURNACHANDRA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following ORDER: 1. This Criminal Petition, under section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNSS’) is filed on behalf of the Petitioner/Accused seeking anticipatory bail in Crime No.10 of 2025 of Nagari Urban Police Station, Chittoor District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 62 read with 64(1), 74, 75(2), 333 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023 (for short, ‘BNS’) and Section 7 read with 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short, ‘POCSO Act’). 2. The prosecution’s case, in brief, is that on 04.01.2025 at approximately 2.30 p.m., the accused visited the complainant’s residence and handed 2 Rs.5,000/- to t