lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH, j},¢%€! TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIIVIINAL PETITION NO: 2993 OF 2025 Between : Gavel Laxmayya, S/o Late Padanna, Age 40 years, R/o Gedigunta\Village lnjari Panchayat, Pedabayalu MandaI, AIIuri Sitharamaraju District. ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, through Station House officer, G.Madugula P.S, AIIuri Sita Ramaraju District Rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court at Amaravati. ...Respondent Petition under Sections 437 & 439 of Cr.P.C/480 & 483 of BNSS, is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds fI-led in Support Of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the Petitioner/A2 on bail in connection with crime No. 51 of 2024 of G.Madugula P.S- The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of M/s Ramineni Sudheer, Advocate for the Petitioner and of Public Prosecutor for Respondent, the Court made the following APHCO10141262025 lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jur'isdiction) THURSDAY ,THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2993/2025 Between : Gavel Laxmayya AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.RAMINENI SUDHEER [3369] ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Respondent/complainant 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition, u/Sec.480 & 483 of` the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A2, seeking bail, in Crime No.51/2024 of G.Madugula Police Station, ASR District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the offence punishable u/Sec.20(b)(ii)(C), 25 r/w 8(c) of NDPS Act. 3. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor representing the respondent/state. 4. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on 15.ll.2024 at about 09.00 am, on receipt of credible information regarding illegal possession and transportation of ganja, the S.I of Police, along with staff and mediators rushed to Nurmathi Village junction and conducted vehicle checking. They observed that one jeep bearing registration no.AP 39 GK 4609 was coming. =j- _---I -® 2 On seeing police, the inmates in the jeep tried to ran away. Then police apprehended one person while the others ran away. On enquiry, he disclosed his identity particulars as that of Al and police found 2OO kgs of ganja in his possession in the jeep. He confessed that he collected the ganja from A2 and hence the name of the petitioner was included in the F.I.R. Police arrested Al and remanded him to judicial custody. During the course of investigation, police arrested the petitioner on 27.ll.2O24. 5. Heard. Perused the record. 6. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that major part of the investigation is completed except filing of charge sheet for want of RFSL report and prays to dismiss the petition. 7. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that a Crime Came tO be registered on 15.ll.2024 and basing on the confession statement of CO- accused, this petitioner was arrested on 27.ll.2024 and since then he has been in judicial custody and the same was not disputed by the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 8. After careful observation of the material on record and SubmiSSiOnS made on behalf of both sides, it shows that the petitioner was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 27.ll.2024. Evidently no contraband has been seized from the possession of the petitioner. Since the accused has been in remand from 27.ll.2024, th'ls Court found that m'ost of the invest'lgation pertaining to the role played by the petitioner in the commission of the offence would be completed. It is submitted that the --- 3 petitioner has permanent abode and there is no possibility of his fleeing away from justice and most of the witnesses are official witnesses and the release of the petitioner would not cause tampering of evI'denCe and hampering of investigation. when ascertained, learned Assistant public prosecutor submitted that no antecedent reported against the petitioner. considering the entire material on record, this court is inclined to grant ba" to the petitioner with some condl|tl'ons. 7. In the result, the crimI-nat Petition I-S allowed with the following conditions: (i) The petitioner/A2 herein sha" be released on his executing a personal bond for Rs.50,00O/-(Rupees fifty thousand only) with two sureties for a like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned I Additional District and sessions Judge-Gum-special Judge for trial of offences under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam. (ii) on release, the petitioner sha" appear before the station House offl'cer concerned on every sunday between 10.00 a.m. and 12.OO noon, for a period of three (o3) months. (iii) the petitioner shall not tamper wI'th the evidence and hamper the investigation and sha" cooperate for investigation. ¥ A`< ASsFsDTJi //TRUE COPY// SEcTlo OFFICER OL--..---_ To, 1. The I Additional District & Sessions Judge-Gum-Special Judge for Trial of offences under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam. 2. The Superintendent, central Jail, Visakhapatnam. 3. The Station House Officer, G.Madugula Police Station, Alluri Sita Ramaraju District. 4. One CC to SRI RAMINENI SUDHEER Advocate [OPUC] 5. Two CCs toPUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of A.P., Amaravati.[OUT] 6. One spare copy. PSD rfe . +Sys'. ::i.¢*``* r._ 1q NI\\ \#5\ HIGH COURT TMR,J DATED : 27/03/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.2993 of 2025 ALLOWED I