Mandalaneni Srinivasa Rao Alias Mandalaneni Srinivas, v. The State Of Telangana,
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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
MONDAY,THE TENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRTMINAL PETITION NO: 13949 OF 2025 Between:
1. Mandalaneni Srinivasa Rao alias Mandalaneni Srinivas,, S/o. Mandalaneni Satyanarayana Aged 42 yrs., Occ., Business R/o Flat No.1A, 1st Floor Anusha Residency, Road No.2 Opp.Lane 2, Adithya Fort View Villas Puppalaguda Village, Manikonda Ranga Reddy District.
2. Borra Venkata Appa Rao, S/o Koteswara Rao, aged 53 yrs., Om. Business, R/o Flat No.304, Vision Arcade, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Bachupally, Hyderabad ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED NOS. 1 & 2 AND The State of Telangana,, Rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court, Hyderabad ...RESPON DENT/COMPLAINANTS Petition under Section 482 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to ENLARGE the Petitioners on Anticipatory Bail in the event of their arrest in connection with the FIR N0.157 of 2025 on the file of the Market Police Station, Secunderabad, Hyderabad, dated 25.08.2025 for the alleged offence U/Secs. 338, 336(3), 340(2), s18(4) and 351(2) of BNS., 2023 This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri V V NARASIMHA RAO ,Advocate for the Petitioner and Sri. Arun Kumar Dodla the Additional Public Prosecutor (TG) on behalf of the Sole Respondent. The Court made the following: ORDER
THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No. L3949 of 2ol25 ORDER:
This Criminal Petition is hled under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short 'BNSSJ for grant of pre-arrest bail to the petitioners, who are arrayed as accused Nos.l and 2 in crime No.157 of 2o2s before the Market Police Station, Hyderabad.
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The brief facts of the case are that the de facto complainant lodged a report before the police stating that that the petitioners, Srinivas Mandalneni and Borra venkata Apparao, had forged and created an agreement dated 1o.o9.2o23 in the name of the complainant's late father, Jangala Pramoda Krishna, relating to land measuring Ac.3.31 guntas situated at velimala village, Sangareddy District. It was alleged that the petitioners used fake signatures of the complainant and his father to fabricate the said document and later threatened the complainant when he refused to pay additional money.
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Heard Sri V.V. Narasimha Rao, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners as well as Sri D. Arun Kumar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing on behalf of the respondent - State 4.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the dispute was purely civil in nature and that the complainant had falsely implicated the petitioners with mala fidl intention and that the agreement dated 1O.O9.2O23 was genuine, executed by the complainant's father in the presence of the complainant himself, and that the petitioners had already invested huge amounts for development and NALA'conversion. He further submitted that a civil suit in o.s.No.l22 0f 2025 was already pending regarding the same document, wherein the complainant had sought expert opinion on the signatures. Therefore, he prayed the Court to grant pre-arrest bail to the petitioners by allowing this criminal petition. i 5.
On the other hand, learned Additional Public Prosecutor vehemently opposed the submissions made by learned counsel for petitioners, stating that the allegations leveled against the petitioners are serious in nature. At this stage, /
Crl.P.No.13949 of 2o26 granting of pre-arrest bail to the petitioners does not arise. Therefore, he prayed the Court to dismiss the Criminal Petition.
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In the light of the submissions made by both the learned counsel and on a perusal of the material availabre on record, it appears that the main contention of the petitioners is that the dispute is purely civil in nature and that there is no fabrication of documents by them, as the agreement in question was executed between the parties during the lifetime of the de facto complainant's father. Hence, custodial interrogation of the petitioners is not necessary. However, the allegations on record indicate that no such agreement existed, and subsequently, the de facto complainant had executed agreements with other parties. Further, as seen from the record, the investigation is still in progress. At this stage, it cannot be prima facie said that there are no allegations against the petitioners. Moreover, it is alleged that the petitioners threatened the de facto complainant with dire consequences and insisted that he register the property, failing which they would drag the land into litigation. considering the seriousness of the allegations, this court is
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u ii C) Crl.P.No.13949 of 2025 not inclined to grant pre-arrest bail to the petitioners, and the same is liable to be dismissed.
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Accordingly, this criminal petition is disrnissed. Miscellaneous applications, if any pending, shall stand closed.
SD/- U //TRUE COPY// OFFICER To, The XXll Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate AT HYD Secunderabad.
2. The Station House Officer , Monda Market Police Station, Secunderabad.
3. One CC to SRl. V V NARASIMHA RAO Advocate [OPUC]
4. Two Copies to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad [OUT]
5. Two CD Copies pk M/
/ / HIGH COURT DATED i1011112025 s {HE ( () C) 0 I JAN 2026 .2, CRLP.No.13949 of 2025 * J CRIMINAL PETITION IS DISMISSED tt/ \0