I, IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATl TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSANDAND TWENTY FIVE / Trf<NOURABLE SR:PJRuEsST:CNET:K SREENIVASA REF HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA RED CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 209 OF 2025 / Between : <if<, t [3327] vanthala Krishna, s/o sonny, Age 22 years, R/o Near Govt. School, Jamaiguda village, Bosput post, pedabayalu, ASR DI-St. ~ Petitioner/AI AND The State ofAndhra pradesh, SHO, Chowdavaram p.s., visakhapatanam Represented by its public prosecutor, HI-gh Court of Andhra pradesh at Amaravati, Guntur DistrI'Ct / Respondent petition under sections 480 & 483 of BNSS (old Sections 437 & 439 of cr.p.c), prayI-ng that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the criminal petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the petitl'oners/A 1 & A2 on Regular Bail in respect to the crime No.173/2024 on the file of ll Town Police Station, visakapatanam. ~ The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusI'ng the Petition and the grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of sri ANAND KUMAR KOCHIRl, Advocate for the petI'tiOner and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent and the court made the followl'ng; TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND ll^/ENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.209 OF 2025 Betwee n : Vanthala Krishna The State of AP Rep. by its PP ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.ANAND KUMAR KOCH'IRI Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the I Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A1, seeking regular bail, in Crime No.206 of 2024 of Chodavaram Police Station, Anakapalli district. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner herein and others for the offence punishable under Section 20(b)(ii)(C) t_=fr®s3=- I t read with 8(c), 25, of the Narcotic Drugs and psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short lthe NDPS Actl). 3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on o4.06.2024, at about 04.00 hours, on receipt of credl-ble inforination, the sub- Inspector of Police, Chodavaram police Stall-On, along With his staff and mediators, while conducting vehicle checking at `venkannapalem junction of venkannapalem village, Chodavaram Mandal, found Al and A2 in possession and illegal transportation of 220 Kgs of Ganja in a car bearing registration No.AP 31 BH 6650. On seeing the police party, Al escaped from the spot. police arrested A2 and seized the contraband along with the vehicle and other material under cover of a mediators report and a case has been registered against the accused. Petitioner herein was arrested and got remanded to judicial custody on 23.06.2024. 4. Heard. Perused the record. 5. A perusal of the material on record goes to show that earlier a case was registered against the petitioner herein in Crime No.173 of 2024 of Visakhapatnam ll Town Police Station, for the same offenci punishable under Section 20(b)(ii)(C ) read with 8 (C) of the NDPS Act. Thereafter, the present crime was `-.-- `-.i _ ---------- 3 f/ registered against .the petitioner herein. During the course c;f investigation, petitioner herein was arrested on 23.06.2024 and I remanded to judicial custody. The petitioner herein was produced before the I-uriSdiCtiOnaI Court in the present crime on PT warrant. Petitioner herein is languishing in' jaI-I Since 23.06.2024. Statutory period of 180 days has expired. But, the i police have not completed investigation nor filed charge sheet in this crime so far. It is also not known as to whether the police have filed any application before the jurisdictional court for. extension of time for completing the investigation or not. Apart from that, basing on the confessional statement of co-accused, the name of the petitioner herein was shown' as accused in the present crime. 6. In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner/Al on the following conditions. A i) The petitioner/Al shall be released on bal.I on his executing a personal bond for Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only) with two sureties of the like sum each to the satisfaction of the-learned I Additional District and Session; Judge, Visakhapatnam. I-------rr| + ii) on release, the petl'tioner sha" appear before the station House officer concerned, once in a week I'.e., on every I saturday between 10.00 am and o1.00 pm, tI'll filing of the charge sh-eel. 7. AccordI'ngly, the Criml'nal petjtl-on ,'s a"owed. s^D®l= ¥_._KAS I RAG A--._ Fort //TRUE COPY// ASSlsTA SEcTlt ACHARl \ lSTRAR OFFICER I 'i') I \\ \ To, 1. The I Additional District and sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam 2. The " Additional chief Metropolitan Magistrate, visakhapatnam 3. The Superintendent, central Jail , Visakhapatnam 4. The S.H.O., lI Town Police Station, Visakapatanam 5. One CC to SRl. ANAND KUMAR KOCHIRI Advocate [opuc] 6. Two CCs to PubII-C Prosecutor, High Court ofAP [OUT] 7. One spare copy Kj •2 2 hJAN 2#25 \`-`€i`-`Tstss`S=t \Svi_ . a-€--€ HIGH COURT SRK,J b -\ DATED:21/01/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.209 of 2025 ALLOWED