APHC010161262025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] WEDNESDAY ,THE SECOND DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3479/2025 Between: Katta Lakshmikar ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. G RAMESH BABU Counsel for the Respondent/complainant(S): 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N CRIMINAL PETITION No.3479 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the State. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was arraigned as accused in S.C.NDPS No.23 of 2024 on the file of the Court of the I Additional District & Sessions Judge, Vizianagaram, for the alleged offence under Sections 8(c) read with 20(b)(ii)(B) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 3. The learned counsel further submits that the petitioner has been arraigned as accused on the alleged confession of the child in conflict with law. 4. After going through the charge sheet, this Court is of the considered opinion that the competent Sessions Court must deal with the issue during the trial, as several facts need to be tested before the trial court. 5. With these observations, the criminal petition is disposed off, leaving it open to the petitioner to take all these grounds before the Sessions Court. 6. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this criminal petition shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N Dt.02.04.2025 BV