CRLP/2633/2025 of DODDA RAKESH GANDHI Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010122522025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3396] (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2633/2025 Between: Dodda Rakesh Gandhi ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. PAPUDIPPU SASHIDAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 of B.N.S.S., is filed by the petitioner herein seeking to grant anticipatory bail in Crime No.332 of 2024 of Chirala I Town Police Station, Bapatla District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 352, 353(2) and 196(1) of the BNS and Section 67 of the ITA-2000-2008. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, after arguing for some time, has confined his argument to the extent of protecting the petitioner herein from the coercive action by the police on the ground that the offences alleged are punishable with imprisonment of less than seven years and prays this Court to direct the police to follow the p