1 APHC010115902025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] MONDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2449/2025 Between: Kimudu Sattibabu and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S): 1. SRINIVASA RAO.G Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: The Criminal Petition, u/Sec.480 & 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is filed on behalf of the petitioners/A4 to A6 to grant regular bail in connection with Crime No.54/2024 of G.Madugula Police Station, Alluri Sitharamaraju District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioners herein and others for the offences punishable u/Sec.111(2)(b) of B.N.S. and Sec.20(b)(ii)(C), 25 r/w 8(c) of NDPS Act. 2 3. The case of the prosecution in nut shell is as follows: On 02.12.2024 at 4.00 pm, on receipt of credible information about illegal possession and transportation of ganja, the Sub-Inspector of Police, G.Madugula Police Station, along with staff and mediators went to Eedulabayalu junction, G.Madugula Mandal and found A1, A4 to A6 in possession of 20 gunny bags each containing 20 kgs of ganja in total 400 kgs of ganja. Police arrested the accused, seized the contraband and vehicle and got them remanded to judicial custody. 4. Heard Sri G.Srinivasa Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Neelothpal Ganji, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for the respondent. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners have been in judicial custody from 02.12.2024 and more than three months elapsed and prays to allow the criminal petition. 6. Contra to the same, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor vehemently opposed the petition stating that inventory is pending in this matter and the seized contraband is huge quantity and prays to dismiss the criminal petition. 7. Considering the submissions made and on perusal of the material on record shows that learned Assistant Public Prosecutor has rightly pointed out that the seized contraband is huge quantity and as the investigation is 3 pending, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioners at this stage. 8. In the result, the criminal petition is dismissed. Consequently, miscellaneous applications pending, if any, shall stand closed. _____________________________________ DR. VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA,J 17.3.2025 RD 4 THE HONOURABLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION No.2449 of 2025 DATE: 17.3.2025 RD