4 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMAR| FRIDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE iPRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3411 OF 2025 Between: Pangi Kameswara Rao @ Bayya, S/o.Ramurthi, Aged 44 years, R/o D.NO.Enuguguguda Village, Kularsingi Panchayat Nandapur Mandal, Koraput District, Odisha States. Petitloner/A2 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh. Rep. By its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Amaravati, Through Station House Officer, Pedabayalu Police Station. Respondent Petition under Section 480 & 483 of Cr.P.C./437 & 439 of BNSS., is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the CriminalPetition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the Petitioner/ A.2 on Regular Bail in connection with Crime No. 17/2024 on the file of Pedabayalu Police Station, SitaramaAlluri Raju dated; 03.04.2024 The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of Sri. PUWALA SRINIVASA RAO Advocate for the Petitioner and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent; The Court made the following: * APHC010159182025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] FRIDAY. THE FOURTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3411/2025 Between: Pangi Kameswara Rao @ Bayya ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. PUWALA SRINIVASA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT This Criminal Petition under Sections 480 and 483 of BNSS been filed by the petitioner herein/A2 seeking regular bail in Crime No.17 of 2024 of Pedabayalu Police Station, Alluri Sitharama District, registered for the offences punishable 20(b)(ii)(B) read with 8(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Case of the prosecution, in brief is that on 03.04.2024, Election duties, the flying squad in-charge of Dy.Tahsildar, along with his staff conducting vehicle checking and caught the accused in possession of 11.660 Kgs of Ganja. The contraband along with other material seized under the cover of mediators report. has Raju under Sections 2. as per was 4 2 Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner has 3. been in judicial custody from 01.03.2025 and prays this Court to grant bail to the petitioner herein. 4. On the other hand, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor vehemently opposed the grant of bail to the petitioner. Heard. Perused the record. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the contraband 6. alleged to be seized from the possession of accused is 11.660 Kgs of ganja, which is not of commercial quantity. It is submitted that the petitioner had permanent abode and there is no possibility of his fleeing away from the justice. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that most of the witnesses are shown to be official witnesses and the release of the accused would not cause hampering of investigation and tampering of witnesses. 7. In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and since the contraband involved in the present crime is not a commercial quantity, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner herein. 8. In the result, the criminal petition is allowed with the following conditions: i. The petitioner herein shall be released on bail on his 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 3 Additional District & Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge for Trail of the cases under the NDPS Act, 1985, Visakhapatnam. ii. On release, the petitioner shall appear before the Station House Officer concerned, once in a fortnight i.e., on 1st and 15th of every month between 10.00 AM and 01.00 PM., for a period of three (3) months. iii. The petitioner shall make himself available for investigation as and when required and that he shall not cause any threat, inducement or promise to the prosecution witnesses. K.SRINIVASA RAJU ASSISTAN SDI- ISTRAR i X //TRUE COPY// To, 1. The 1 Additional District & Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge for Trial of Offences under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam. 2. The Superintendent, Central Prison, Visakhapatnam. Officer, Pedabayalu Police Station, Visakhapatnam. 3. The Station House 4, One CC to Sri. PUWALA SRINIVASA RAO, Advocate [OPUC] PROSECUTOR, High Court of Andhra 5. Two CCs to the PUBLIC Pradesh [OUT] 6. One spare copy JSS \ HIGH COURT TMR, J DATED:04/04/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.3411 of 2025 X »? ^PR ® £PSPATC^^ e O ALLOWED &t*