IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI MONDAY THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSANDAND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 291 OF 2025 Between: Pangi Seshu, s/o Srikanth (late), age 20 years, R/o kolagunnala village Kudumsara Panchayat colony. Chintapalli Mandal, ASR District ...Petitioner/Accused No.6 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Through Station House Officer, Koyyuru Police Station, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravathi, Guntur District. ...Respondent/Complainant Petition under Section 480 & 483of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the petitioner on Bail in connection with Crime No.94/2024 of Koyyuru Police Station This Petition coming on for hearing upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri Isukapatia Ajay Krishna, Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor (AP) on behalf of the Respondent The Court made the following order: APHC010010792025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3327] MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION N0.291 OF 2025 Between: Pangi Seshu ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. Isukapatla.Ajay Krishna Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A-6, seeking regular bail, in Crime No.94 of 2024 of Koyyuru Police Station, Alluri Sitharama Raju District. 2 A case has been registered against the petitioner herein 2. and others for the offences punishable under Sections 111(2)(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 20(b)(ii)(C) 25 read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘the NDPS Act’). Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 30.09.2024, at 3. about 10.00 hours, the Sub-Inspector of Police, Koyyuru Police Station, along with his staff and mediators, while conducting vehicle checking at the outskirts of Cheedipalem village of Koyyuru Mandal, found one Pulsar motor cycle and two cars coming from Budaralla village side. On seeing the police, when they tried to escape, the police chased them and caught two car drivers, while others were escaped. Police seized 851 KGs of Ganja from the two cars under cover of a mediators report and a case has been registered against the accused. Heard. Perused the record. 4. The quantity of contraband allegedly seized from the 5. possession of the accused is 851 Kgs of Ganja, which is a huge Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor commercial quantity. 3 submits that the case is still under investigation and some more witnesses are to be examined. In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner herein. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. Sd/- K KASIRAO ACHARI ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// \ SE OFFICER The I Additional District & Sessions Judge —Special Judge for Trial of Offences Under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam. The II Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Principal Magistrate - cum - Juvenile Justice Board Visakhapatnam. The Superintendent Central Prison, Visakhapatnam. The Station House Officer, Koyyuru Police Station, ASR District. One CC to Sri. Isukapatia Ajay Krishna, Advocate [OPUC] Two CCs to The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh [OUT] Three CD Copies To. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. MKP sree HIGH COURT DATED :27/01/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.291 of 2025 10 MAR 2025 ^ . Current Section ^ if 3: DISMISSING THE CRIMINAL PETITION