lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARA rj TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL of TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVEtr .. PRESENTl. trf#.- THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE I MALLIKARJUNA RA Betwee n< Ramalayam DI'Strl'Ct. *4 CRIMINAL PETITION NO.I 3162 OF 2025tgr Mogl-Ill Manjkanta Raju @ Manjkanta, s/o.Rambabu, Age 23 years, c/Kapu, D®|m-I-I,__ -J __I_ _I street, sl'mhadripuram village, KI'rlampud,I Mandal, Kakinada I-Petitl-oners/Accused No.1 ldr AND The state of Andhra pradesh, through the station House officer, prathl'padu EE ps, East Godavari District Represented by publl'c fr#oTs=cutor, High court of Andhra pradesh ...Respondent HEE= EEE petition under sections 480 & 483 of BNSS, praying that I-n the circumstances stated jn the memorandum of grounds filed in support of thez crimjnalpetl'tI-On, the Hl-gh Court may be pleased to grant them ba" on such terms and conditions as deemed fl't dI-reCtjng hI'S enlargement in cr,'me No.I -_' 171 of 20jg4rfof Prathl-padu police station. gr The petition coml'ng on for hearl'ng, upon perusing the petition and the: affidavl't filed l'n support thereof and upon hearlng the arguments of SRI E= DUGGIRALA SUBASH, Advocate for the petl'tI'Oner, and gn# PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent,' APHCO10148502025 i iFH#E#E lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ~ AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] TuESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3162/2025 Between : Mogili Manikanta Raju @ Manikanta ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Pradesh Counsel for the PetitI-Oner/accused: 1.DUGGIRALA SUBASH Counsel for the Respondent/complal-nant: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Coult made the following Order: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the BNSS, has been filed by the petitioner herein/A1, seekl'ng regular bail, in Crime No.171 of 2024 of Prathipadu police Station, Kakinada District, regI'Stered for the OffenCeS Punishable under Sections 20(b)(ii)(C) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act,1985. 2. Case of the prosecution is that, on 14.07.2024, on receipt of credible informatl'on, the Sub-Inspector of police along wI-th his staff and medl'ators rushed to Thammayya cheruvu punta road at the leased mango garden of A3 at the outskirts of Dharmavaram village in Prathipadu MandaI, and caught the accused I'n possession Of 60Kgs of Ganja. The contraband along wl-th other material was sel'zed under the cover of Mediators Report. 3. Heard. perusedtherecord. 4. Learned counsel for the petI'tjOner subml-ts that basI'ng On the confessI-Onal statement of co-accused, the petl'tI-Oner hereI'n I-s arrayed as accused Ion the present crime. Except the said confessI'Onal statement, no other materl'al has been collected to connect the petl-tI'Oner jn the commjssjon of offence. Moreover, the petI®tjOner has been Ion judicial custody from 27.12-2024, Learned AssI-Slant Publl'c Prosecutor opposed to grant ba" on the ground that three prevI®OuS CrimI'nal antecedents have been reported against the petitioner herein. lt js submitted by the learned counsel for the petI®tf-Oner that the petl'tI-Oner has permanent abode and there is no possl-bI-lily of hl-s fleeI®ng away from the JurI'Sdietion of the court. lt I-s submI-tted by the learned Ass,'stant public Prosecutor that jnvest].gatf'on Ion the present crI'me l's completed and the charge sheet js also filed. 5. In view of the facts and cl-rcumstances of the case and apart from the confessional statement of co-accused, no other materl'a' I-s collected by the l'nvestI'gatI'On agency showl®ng the compll'cl-ty of the petl'tjoner Ion the commission of offence, th,-s F= a_-_ --- -- court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner herein/A1, on the following conditions. i. The petitioner herein/Al shall be released on executing a personal bond for Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only) with two sureties for a like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned I Additional Sessions Judge, Rajamahendravaram. ii. The petitioner shall co-operate with the trial of the Case. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition isaIIowed. SD/-M.PRABHAKARA RAO ASSISTANT '|)qSTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICEP` To, / L----------,- For A`oolo I AN I l`t=ulo I T`^I` u~- 1. The I Additional Sessions Judge at Rajamahendravaram, East Godavari District tr 2. The Superintendent, Central Prison at Rajamah€ndravaram, East 3. TGhoedasvta;triioDnisHtr:Cutse officer, prathipadu po#e station, Kakinada District 4. One CC to SRl. DUGGIRALA SUBASH Advocate [OPUC] u 5. Two cos to PUBLIC PROSE&UTOR, High Court of Andhra Pradesh [OUT] 6. One spare copy tr€rf- PSR r/ HIGH COURT TIVI R,J DATED..01 /04/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.3162 of 2025 ALLOWED iS#_the- -1{ #ipl ` \ ttpR 1\\L` +demS! _ ^ *#dei('' `r.- ; ,pRTRE# . | .'l