The State of Ap v. D Vamsi Krishna
Maintainability – Writ Appeal under clause 15 of the Letters Patent
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ Appeal No. 744 of 2025 (High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati, decided 04.07.2025) by State of Andhra Pradesh and police officials (GP for Home) against D. Vamsi Krishna (counsel Papudippu Sashidar Reddy), challenging Single Judge order dated 04.03.2025 in W.P.No.5458 of 2025. Held: writ appeal not maintainable against a single Bench judgment rendered in exercise of criminal jurisdiction, following G. Swamy Naidu v. State of Andhra Pradesh (W.A.No.849 of 2023, decided 28.11.2023) and Ram Kishan Fauji v. State of Haryana, (2017) 5 SCC 533. Appeal dismissed, no order as to costs; miscellaneous applications closed. Keywords: maintainability, writ appeal, clause 15 Letters Patent, criminal jurisdiction, single Bench judgment.
What did the court decide?
A writ appeal is not maintainable against the judgment rendered by a single Bench passed in exercise of its criminal jurisdiction; accordingly, the present writ appeal is not maintainable and is dismissed.