EE lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATl,I WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JULY, TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRl .JUSTICE K SREEN[VASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 5893 OF 2025 Betwee n : Seedari Nandayya, S/o Bandudu, aged about 52 years, R/o Dayarthi village, Dayarthialam, Ananthagiri Mandal, Zeenabadu, ASR district. ...Petitioner/Accused 1 -AND i i>. The State of Andhra Pradesh,-`'{h-rough SHO Devarapalli police station, Rep by its public prosecutor, ir'igih`' court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravathi, Guntur district. .' =_i .* ...Respondent/Complainant petition under sections 480l & 483 of BNSS, 2023, is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the petitioner/Al on bail in connection with Crime no.312/2019 of Devarapalli police station, Visakhapatnam district u/s .20(b)(ii)(c), r/w 8(c) of the NDPS Act in Crime no . 312/2019 dated 8-9-2019. The petition coming on for-hearing, upon perusing the Petition and the rl_`\ grounds filed in support there-6'+F' and upon hearing the arguments of Sri K.Pridhvi Raju, Advocate for the Petitioner and of Public Prosecutor for Respondent, the Court made the`following I - \_3',1l i I I.~_l 4J`- HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE KI SREENIVASA REDDY Criminal Petition NoI5893 of 2025 Order: The Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 & 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A1, seeking regular bail, in Crime No.312 of 2019 of DevarapaIIi Police Station, Visakhapatnam District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the offences punishable under Sections 20(b)(ii)(C) r/w 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on o8.09.2019 at 07.30 hours, on credible information about illegal transportation of ganja, ASI No.1197, Devarapalli Police Station, along with his staff and mediators, proceeded to Sri Rampuram Junction, Devarapalli MandaI, and while conducting raid found Al to A5 illegally transporting 36 Kgs of ganja in Auto bearing No.AP 31 TG 4160. The accused persons were arrested and the contraband, along with Auto, was seized. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was shown as Accused No.1 basing on the confessional statement of co-accused. The petitioner was remanded to judicial custody on 27.05.2025 and since then' he is languishing in jail. i_--T<..-. `\_*t*ke E==C I-1 _ L` _-_4-ulL_TL|+Li }at, To, 5. Learned Assistant public prosecutor submits that major portllOn of the investigation has been completed. 6. Heard. perusedtherecord. 7. Basing on the confessional statement of co-accused, a case has been registered against the petitioner here,-n and the petitioner herein was not apprehended at the scene of offence. The petitioner has been in J-udjCial remand on 27.05.2025. ConsiderI|ng the facts and circumstances of the case, this court is inclined to release the Petitioner On bail. 8. Accordingly, the criminal petition is allowed. The petitioner/ Accused No.1 shall be released on bail on executing a personal bond for Rs.10,OOO/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only) with two suretI-eS for the like sum to the satisfaction of the learned I Additional District & Sessions Judge-Gum-special Judge for trial of offences under the NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam. The petitioner shall appear before the Station House Officer concerned on every sunday between 10.00 AM and 1.00 PM till filing of the charge sheet. SD/-K. SRIN!VASA RAJU //TRUE COPY// ASS[STANTffiSTRAR SECTION OFFICER 1. The I Additional District and sessions Judge-Gum-Special Judge for Trial of Offences under NDPS Act,1985, Visakhapatnam. 2. The Superintendent, central prison, visakhapatnam. 3. The Station House Officer, Devarapalli Police Station, Visakhapatnam District. 4. One CC to Sri K.Pridhvi Raju, Advocate [opuc] 5. Two CCs toPUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of A.P., Amaravatj.[ouT] 6. One spare copy. PSD HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED :02/07/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP,No.5893 of 2025 ALLOWED beu#*= .i .^+