Vankudothu Mangamma alias Mangi Guguloth Vs The State of… — Anticipatory Bail | Telangana HC (2025)

Vankudothu Mangamma alias Mangi Guguloth Vs The State of… — Anticipatory Bail | Telangana HC (2025)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

No merits assessment and no formal anticipatory bail enlargement recorded; instead the petitioners were directed to appear before the Investigating Officer on or before 20.08.2025 between 11:00 a.m. and 05:00 p.m., with the Investigating Officer to follow the Section 35(3) BNSS procedure and the Antesh Kumar v. State of Bihar guidelines scrupulously; petitioners to co-operate and furnish documents for consideration before any report to the Magistrate; miscellaneous applications, if any pending, stand closed; Criminal Petition disposed of.

Issue for consideration

Whether the petitioners (Accused Nos. 1 and 2) should be enlarged on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest in Cr.No.210/2025, Nekkonda Police Station, Warangal District, for the alleged offences under Sections 118(1), 351(2) r/w 3(5) BNS.

Court's answer

Without going into the merits of the case, since the punishment prescribed for the offences alleged against the petitioners is less than seven (07) years, the Court deemed it appropriate to direct the petitioners to appear before the Investigating Officer on or before 20.08.2025 between 11:00 a.m. and 05:00 p.m., and in turn directed the Investigating Officer to follow the procedure laid down under Section 35(3) of BNSS and also the guidelines formulated by the Supreme Court in Antesh Kumar v. State of Bihar scrupulously.

Ratio / Principle

The petitioners shall co-operate with the Investigating Officer as and when required by furnishing information and documents sought by him in concluding the investigation; they shall file all documents they ought to file to prove that they do not come under the criminal offences, and the Investigating Officer shall consider the same before filing the appropriate report before the Magistrate.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Anticipatory bail - Section 482 BNSS - Telangana HC at Hyderabad (Smt Justice K. Sujana), Criminal Petition No. 10075 of 2025, decided 13-08-2025: Petitioners/Accused Nos. 1 and 2 (Vankudothu Mangamma alias Manqi Guouloth; Banoth Suresh) sought enlargement on anticipatory bail in Cr.No.210/2025 of Nekkonda Police Station, Warangal District, for alleged offences under Sections 118(1), 351(2) r/w 3(5) BNS. Without going into the merits, and since the punishment prescribed for the alleged offences is less than seven (07) years, the Court directed the petitioners to appear before the Investigating Officer on or before 20.08.2025 (between 11:00 a.m. and 05:00 p.m.) and directed the Investigating Officer to follow the procedure laid down under Section 35(3) of BNSS and the guidelines formulated by the Supreme Court in Antesh Kumar v. State of Bihar scrupulously; the petitioners were to co-operate with the Investigating Officer, furnish information/documents, and file documents to show they do not come under the criminal offences, which the Investigating Officer was to consider before filing the appropriate report before the Magistrate. The Criminal Petition was disposed of and miscellaneous applications, if any pending, stood closed.

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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAO

WEDNESDAY,THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TWENry FME

PRESENT

THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE K. SUJANA

CRIMINAL PETITION NO: {0075 0F 2025

Between:

1 Vankudothu Mangamma alias Manqi Guouloth. D/o.Guoulothu Valya,Wo.Nanu,Aged 45 years, Occ.^{-Agricultire,R/o.tt.tto.6-ei2lOasru} I handa, Gudur Mandal,Mahabbubad District,Telangana State.

2 Banoth Suresh, S/o.Banoth Balu, Aged 32 years, Occ. Agriculture, R/o H. No.1-46, Bollikonda Village, Nek-konda Mandai,Warangat- Diskict, Telangana State.

...Petitioner/Accused No.1 and 2

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I|q^{Stqtg of Telangana, Rep by its Public prosecutor,High Court for the} State of Telangana At Hyderabad. Through P.S. Neckond'a,Warangal District.,

...RespondenUComplainant

Petition under Section 482 of B.N.S.S. praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal^petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the Petitioners/Accused No.1 and 2 herein on Anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest in Cr.No.210/2025 on the file of Neckonda pS, Warangal District for the alleged offence U/Sec. 1 18(1),351(2),r/w.3(S) BNS.

This Petition coming on for hearing,upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri VEERA BABU GANDU ,Advocate for the Petitioner and the Sri.Syed Yasoor Mamoon ,Additional Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent No.1 .

The Court made the following: ORDER

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THE HON,BLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJr -ItA cRIMINAL oI{ No. 1q)75 OF 2ttt25

ORDER:

This Criminal petition is filed for grant of ar _icipatory bail to the petitioners in connection with Crime No..l O of 2O2S of Nekkonda police Station, Warangal. The of i nces alleged against the petitioner are under Sections I I{ (1), 35l(2) r/w.3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for sh(,r r^.BNSSJ.

Heard Veera Babu Gandu, learned cotu.sel for the petitioners and Sri Syed Yasar Mamoon, learne I Additionai Public prosecutor appearing for the respondent-stzt e.

However, u,ithour going into merits of the ca;e, since the punishment prescribed for the offences allegec against the petitioners are less than seve n (07) years, this C I rrt deems it appropriate to direct the petitroners to appear before the Investigating Officer on or before 2O.Oa_2O25 betwe,: r I l:OO a.m. and O5:OO p.m. and inturn the Invcstigating Officer i; directed to follow the procedure lairl down under Section 35 3) of BNSS and also the guidelincs formulated by the Hon,: e Supreme Court in Antesh Kuma.r v. Stqte of Bihqrr sr rupulously.

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However, petitioners^{shall co-operate with the Investigating} Officer as and^{when required by furnishing informationand} documents as^{soughtby him in concludingthe investigation'} The petitioners shall^{file all the documents,which they oughtto} Iile to prove that it^{do not come underttre criminal offences and} the Investigating^{Officer shall considerthe same before hling} appropriate^{reportbeforethe Magistrate}

+. Accordingly, the^{Criminat Petition is disposedof'}

Miscellaneous^{applications,if aly pending, shall standclosed'}

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sDr'AHMED^ABDULLA [!AN ASSTSTAI'IT^REGISTRAR

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,/TRUE^COPY//

SECTTON^OFFICER

To,

The Additional^{Judicial First ClassMagistrate'Narsampet}

To the^{Station Houseofficer'Neckonda'Warnagal}

One^{CC to SRl. VEERA BABU GANDU Advocate [OPUC]}

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Two^{CD CoPies}

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HIGH COURT

DATED:13/08/2025

ORDER

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