APHC010324552025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6651 OF 2025 Between: Imran Khan, s/o Late Badsha Khan, aged 31 years, r/o D.No. 24-9-1/3, Behind More Super Market, VUDA Colony, Kanithi Road, Gajuwaka. ...Petitioner/Accused No.1 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, through S.H.O., Gajuwaka Police Station, Visakhapatnam District, rep. By Public Prosecutor, High Court, Amaravati. ...Respondent Petition under Section 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 herein on bail in connection with FIR No.57 of 2025 of Gajuwaka Police Station, Visakhapatnam District. Counsel for the Petitioner: SRI P NAGENDRA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: 1 APHC010324552025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special,Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE [3369] PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6651/2025 Between; 1. IMRAN KHAN, S/0 LATE BADSHA KHAN, AGED 31 YEARS R/0 D.NO. 24-9-1/3, BEHIND MORE ‘ COLONY, KANITHI ROAD, GAJUWAKA SUPER MARKET, VUDA ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1.THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, through S.H.O., Gajuwaka Police Station, Visakhapatnam District, rep. bBy Public Prosecutor, High Court, Amaravati. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Petition under Section 437/438/439/482 of DMoo 528 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 herein on bail in connection with FIR No. 57 of 2025 of Gajuwaka Police Station, Visakhapatnam District, and to pass such Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.P NAGENDRA REDDY 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/AI, seeking bail, in Crime No.57/2025 of Gafu\^ka police station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate. 2 1% A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the offence punishable u/Sec.8(c) r/w Sec.20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. 2. 3. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor representing the respondent/State. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on 11.02,2025 at 7.00am, 4. on receipt of credible information regarding illegal possession and transportation of ganja, the S.l of police, along with his staff and mediators rushed behind more super market, VUDA colony, Kanithi Road, Gajuwaka and went to the house of the petitioner/AI for search. On seeing police, the inmates in the house who are eight in number tried to escape. Then police apprehended them and on enquiry, they disclosed their identity particulars as that of A1 to A8 and police found 184 kgs of ganja in their possession. Then police apprehended them and seized the ganja and after observing all formalities, they were remanded to judicial custody. 5. Heard. Perused the record. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that the contraband 6. involved is huge quantity i.e. 184 kgs and investigation is not completed and some more witnesses are to be examined and prays to dismiss the criminal petition. 3 Learned counsel for the petitioner contend that the petitioner was 7. arrested on 11.02.2025 and since then he has been languishing in jail and prays to allow the petition. After careful observation of the material on record and submissions 8. made on behalf of both sides, as the contraband involved in this crime is huge quantity i.e. 184 kgs and as the petitioner has been remanded to judicial custody on 11.02.2025 itself and the allegations made against the petitioner are grave in nature, this Court is not inclined to consider the criminal petition at this stage. In the result, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. 9. Sd/- M PRABHAKAR RAO ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To, 1. The I Addl. District & Sessions Judge -Special Judge for Trial of Offences Under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam 2. The III Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate at Gajuwaka, Visakhapatnam 3. The Superintendent, Visakhapatnam Jail. 4. The Station House Officer, Gajuwaka Police Station, Visakhapatnam District. 5. One CC to Sri. P Nagendra Reddy, Advocate [OPUC] 6. Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati [OUT] 7. Two CD Copies MKP sree V HIGH COURT DATED:09/07/2025 ORDER CRLP NO. 6651 OF 2025 ano«^ % 2 3 SEP 2025 . Current Section . ITi: ^ i DISMISSING THE CRLP