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lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATl MONDAY,THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT:
THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5429 OF 2025 Betwee n :
1. BINA, W/o.Radhe Syam, Aged 53 years, R/o.B-20,DDA Flats,New Ranjith Nagar,VTC Petal Nagar, Central De]hl' District.
2. Pooja Arora, D/o.Radhey Syam, Age 35 years, R/o.B-20, DDA FIats.New Ranjith Nagar,VTC Petal Nagar, Central Delhi District.
3. Vivek, S/o.Munish Kumar.Age 23 Years, R/o.Mohmmdpur KargaI'na, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. ...Petitioner/A-1 to A-3 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh'`, Rep. By its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Amaravati, Through Station House Officer, Visakhapatnam POI,-ce Station. ...Respondent Petition under sectiori 480 & 483 of BNSS (old Section 437 and 439 of Cr.P.C.) praying that in the~€cI'rCumStanCeS Stated in the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the criminal Petition, the Hl-gh Court may be pleased to enlarge the petitioners A.1 & A.3 on Regular Bail in connection with crime No.68/2025 on the file of G R P Police Station, Visakhapatnam dated 22.02-2025. The petI-lion coming 6h for hearing, upon .perusing the petition and the memorandum of grounds Jfil±d in support thereof and upon hearing the'
arguments of M/S. KOLLI USHA KIRANMAYEE Advocate for the petitI-Oner, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent, and the court made thel following.
ORDER:
____ -_-I------JT ~| HONJBLE SRI JUSTICE K. SREENIVASA REDDY Criminal Petition No.5429 of 2025
Order: This Criminal Petition, under sections 480 and 483 of the BNSS, has been filed by the petitioners/Al to A3, seeking regular bail, in CrI'me No.68 of 2025 of Visakhapatnam Government Railway Police Station. 2. A case has been registered agaI'nSt the Petitioners and Others for the offence punishable under section 20(b)(ii)(C) r/w 8(c), 29(1) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on 22.02.2025, the informant/K. Rama Krishna, IPF/RPF, Visakhapatnam RPF post, along with his staff, while conducting checking at public locations near Gate No.5 of Plat Form No.8 of Visakhapatnam Railway Station, found Al to A3 in possession of 33 packets containing 60 KGs of Ganja worth of Rs.3,OO,000/-. The said Ganja was seized under the cover of mediators report and Al to A3 were arrested and remanded to judicial custody. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners were arrested on 21.02.2025 and they were remanded to judicial custody and that since then they are languishing in jail. 5l Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that major portion of the investigation has been completed and there are no previous
'2 || antecedents in respect of the petitioners herein. It is further submitted that charge sheet could not be filed for want of RFSL report and except the same, no further investigation is pending. 6. Heard. Perused the record. 7l The petitioners were arrested and sent to J'udiCial remand on 22.02.2025 and since then they are in jail. Since it is submitted by the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor that major portion of the investigation has been completed except receipt of RFSL report-and the petitioners are languishing in jail since more than four months, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioners. 8. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. The petitioners/ Accused Nos.1 to 3 shall be released on bail on executing a personal bond for Rs,10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only) with two sureties for the like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned vI Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class for Railways-cum-VI Additional Judicial Civil Judge, Visakhapatnam. The petitioners shall appear before the Station House Officer concerned on every Sunday between lO.00 AM and 1.00 PM till filing of the charge sheet. //TRUE COPY// sD/-K. SRIN!\/ASA RAJU ASS,SgrSTP`AR For I SECTION OFFICER
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The Station House OffI--C-e'r-, Visakhapatnam Government Railway Police station, visakhapatnain-.-'``-
2. The VI Additional Judici`-aI Magistrate of lStclass Magistrate for Railways Gum vI Addl. CI|Vil Judge Cciurt Visakhapatnam. 3. The Superintendent,`Centra[ Prison, Visakhapatnam. 4. One CC to M/s. KOLLl USHA KIRANMAYEE, Advocate [OPUC]
5. Two CCs to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of Andhra Pradesh¥-:' [OUT]
6. One spare copy KN EriFd
JP \ HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED : 30/06/2025
ORDER CRLP.No.5429 of 2025 ALLOWED -`-::-- i- ;-` -::--:i