IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.1571 OF 2010 Between: Chetan Gaya Prasad @ Chetan & another ……Petitioners – Accused Nos.1 & 2 AND The State of A.P., Through the P.S. Central Crime Station, Detective Department, Automobile Team, Hyderabad, Rep. by the Public Prosecutor High Court of A.P., Hyderabad .....Respondent HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.1571 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioners Chetan Gaya Prasad @ Chetan and Shaik Afroz Ahmed @ Afroz Ahmed @ Afroz, accused Nos.1 & 2 respectively, seeking to reduce the surety amount from Rs.20,000/- to Rs.5,000/- imposed by the learned XII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Hyderabad vide order dated 28-01-2010 in Criminal M.P. No.345 of 2010 in Crime No.17 of 2010 of Central Crime Station, Detective Department, Hyderabad. 2. Heard. 3. Considering the circumstances of the case, the surety amount of Rs.20,000/- as directed by the learned Magistrate in the impugned order alone is reduced to Rs.5,000/- (Rupees five thousand only). The other directions of the impugned order shall remain unaltered. 4. With the above directions, the Criminal Petition is allowed at the admission stage itself. ____________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J February 24, 2010. PV