APHC010176242025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 3802/2025 Between: Budida Balam Naidu ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. PUVVALA SRINIVASA RAO 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/A1, seeking bail, in Crime No.12/2025 of Pedabayalu Police Station, ASR District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioners and others for the offence punishable u/Sec.20(b)(ii)(C) 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 13.3.2025 at 12.00 noon, on receipt of credible information, regarding illegal possession and 2 transportation of ganja, the S.I of Police, along with staff and mediators rushed to Tamarada village outskirts, beside main road, Adugulaputtu Panchayat and found a person in suspicious circumstances. On seeing police, said person tried to ran away. Then police apprehended him. On enquiry, he disclosed his identity particulars as that of A1 and police found 29.330 kgs of ganja in his possession. Police arrested and remanded him to judicial custody and seized the contraband. 5. Heard. Perused the record. 6. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that investigation is at nascent stage and prays to dismiss the petition. 7. Learned counsel for the petitioner contend that the petitioner has been in judicial custody since 13.3.2025 and he has permanent abode and prays to allow the petition. 8. The record shows that the petitioner has been in judicial custody from 13.3.2025. The seized contraband is 29.330 kgs of ganja which is huge quantity. In view of bar contained under Section 37 of the NDPS Act, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner at this stage. 9. In the result, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ____________________________ JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO Dated: 21.4.2025 RD 3 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.3802 of 2025 Dated: 21.4.2025 RD