Surabhi Kalayan Rao v. the State of Andhra Pradesh
Case brief
What is this about?
Andhra Pradesh High Court, Amaravati; Criminal Petition No.7336 of 2023; Section 482 Cr.P.C. quash petition by petitioners/A3 & A4 (Surabhi Kalyana Rao and another); target proceedings CC No.6171 of 2022, II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Vijayawada; originating FIR Crime No.79 of 2022, Disha Police Station, Vijayawada City; charges under Sections 498-A and 417 IPC and Sections 3 and 4, Dowry Prohibition Act; underlying trial ended in acquittal on 24.04.2024 per Assistant Public Prosecutor's submission; Criminal Petition dismissed as infructuous; miscellaneous petitions ordered closed; Bench: K. Sreenivasa Reddy, J.; decision date 06.04.2026; no precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Recording the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor's submission that the underlying case had ended in acquittal on 24.04.2024, the Court dismissed the Criminal Petition as infructuous, nothing surviving for adjudication; the quashal request was not adjudicated on merits.