S RAJA RAJAN @ SANTOSH v. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH
CRLP/86/2025 · 2025-01-22
K Sreenivasa Reddy
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lN THE HIGH COURTOF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATl WEDNESDAY ,THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JANUAR TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT:
THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 86 OF 2025 Between : r - S Raja Rajan @ Santosh, S/o Subramanian Aged about 40yrs, R'/o No.68, Ashok Nagar Avenue Aavadi, Chennai Tamilnadu State Petitioner/Accused No.1 AND The State ofAndhra Pradesh, Through Station House Officer Tada Police Station, Nellore, SPSR NeIIore District Rep. by its Public Prosecutor High Court of Andhra Pradesh At Amaravathi Respondent/Complainant Petition under sections 437 and 439 of Cr.P.C(New Sectl'ons 480 and 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita,2023), is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the Petitl'Oner On bail in Crime No.159/2024 on the file of the Tada Police Station, Nellore, SPSR Nellore Dl'strict in the interest of justice. .,. The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the
arguments of Sri P NAGENDRA REDDY, Advocate for the Petitioner and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for Respondent, the Court made the following
ORDER I ..I
I I/ THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 86 OF 2025
ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A1, seeking bail, in Crime No.159/2024 of Tada Police Station, Tirupathi district. 2. A case has been regI'Stered against the Petitioner and Others for the offence under Section 20(b)(ii)(C) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. 3. The case of the prosecution is that: On 31.10.2024 at about ll.00hours, on receipt of credible information regarding illegal possession and transportation of ganja, s.I of Police, Tada Police Station, along with staff reached parking place of Tada Railway Station and found Al to A4 -ln suspicious circumstances. On enquiry, Al to A4 revealed their identI'ty Partl'Culars and police seized 46kgs of ganja from their possession. police arrested them and got them remanded to judicial custody on 31.10.2024. 4. Heard. Perused the record. 5. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that major part of the investigation js completed. apz22ZZ2
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6. A perusal ofth6 materl-al available on record goes to showthat on credible information, police arrested Al to A4 and seized 46kgs of ganja from their possession. petI'tl-Oner/Al was arrested on 31.10.2024 and sl-nce then he is in judicial remand. The petitI-Oner Its a graduate jn B.E and LL.B. Learned Assl'stant public prosecutor submitted that there are no antecedents l'nsofar as this petjtjoner I-S concerned and maJ'Or portion of investjgatI'On has been completed. 7. In vl-ew of the aforesaid facts and cl®rcumstances of the case, this court is l'nclI'ned to grant ba" to the petitioner herein, on the following condI'tiOnS. o The petjtl-oner/Al herein sha" be released on hI-S executing a personal bond for Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand only) with two sureties for a like sum each to the satjsfactI'On Of the learned AdditI'Onal Judicial Magistrate of First class, sullurupet, spsR Nellore DistrI'Ct; (ii) on release, the petitioner shall appear before the station House officer concerned once I-n a week i.e. on every sunday between 10.00 a,m. and o5.00 p.m., till filing of charge sheet. 8. Accordingly, the criminal petI'tiOn I-S allowed. SD/-SK MD RAF' ASSISTANT REGISTRAR TRUECOPY,, AS sECTIOir£6 For AS FiCER Tol psk
1. The Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Sullurpet, SPSR NeIIore district. 2. The Superintendent, District Prison, SPSR Nellore District. 3. The Station House Officer Tada Police Station, Nellore, SPSR Nellore District . 4. One CC to SRl.
P NAGENDRA REDDY Advocate [OPUC]
5. Two CCs to the PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of A.P [OPUC]
6. One spare copy
h &llRN \\\5 _se± I.v`. -`_.--isAI-`. HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED..22/01 /2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.86 of 2025 ALLOWED