APHC010311282025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ATAMARAVATI i f THURSDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE I ) i PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6397 OF 2025 Between: Veerla Narayana Murthy, S/o Ananda Rao, Age 47 years, R/o Vaddadi Village, Butchiyyapeta Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 •-I AND C THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, (Butchiyyapeta Police Station,Visakapatnam District). Rep. by the Public Prosecutor ' High Court of Andhra Pradesh Amaravati, Guntur District. ...Respondent/ Complainant 's Petition filed under Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS, praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the Petitioner/Accused A2 on bail as he;is taken into Judicial custody on 05.05.2025 in Crime No.59 of 2025, of Butchiyyapeta Police station, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District. f I Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri Patury Praveen, Advocate Counsel for the Respondent: the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P. The Court made the following order: ? i / ( APHC010311282025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6397/2025 [3369] MM Between; Veerla Narayana Murthy ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.PATURY PRAVEEN Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1.PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the BNSS, has been filed by the petitioner herein/A2, seeking regular bail, in Crime No.59 of 2025 of Butchiyyapeta Police Station, Anakapalli District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8(c) read with 20(b)(ii)(C), 25 of the NDPS Act. Case of the prosecution, in brief is that on 05.05.2025, on 2. receipt of credible information, the Sub-Inspector of Police along with his staff and mediators rushed to Aithampudi Village Junction, Butchiyyapeta Mandai, and caught the accused in possession of 2.490 Kgs of liquid ganja. The contraband along with other material was seized under the cover of mediators ; / 2 report. The accused were arrested and got remanded to judicial custody. 3. Heard. Perused the record. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner has been in judicial custody from 05.05.2025 and prays to grant bail to the petitioner herein. On the other hand, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor opposed to grant bail on the ground that contraband allegedly involved in the present crime is 2.490 Kgs of liquid ganja, which is a commercial quantity and further submits that the case is still under investigation and some more witnesses are to be examined. 5. 6. In view of the gravity of offence and involvement of commercial quantity of contraband and in view of the bar contained under Section 37 of the NDPS Act, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. 7. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. k ■ Sd/-AVIJAYABABU ASSISTANT||^GISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To, 1. The Station House Officer, Butchiyyapeta Police station Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District 2. One CC to Sri Patury Praveen, Advocate [OPUC] 3. Two CC’s to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P [OUT] 4. Three CD Copies GPC(gsg) < V 1 i : I HIGH COURT DATED: 10/07/2025 5 I ■ I 1 ORDER CRLP NO. 6397 OF 2025 ^ / 3 SEP 2025^“ X^vQjfrMt Sectioa^' lO S^- I i (i i- i [/ r dismissing this criminal petition I ‘‘S