\-ts-. '~`` T=|€| IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI MONDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY l*\::i; CRIMINAL PETITION No: 9728 OF 2024 ',JtPb Has Betwee n : Pangi Purna @ Budda @ Nagu, s/o. Budda, aged about 27 years, C/o. Kondakammari, Rachametta Village, Pathakota Panchayathi, Y.Ramavaram Mandalam, AIIuri Seetha Rama Raju District ...Petitioner/Accused-2 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Judicature of Andhra Pradesh At Amaravati. ...Respondent/Complainant Petition under Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS, 2023 old Section 437 a 439 of Cr.P.C., is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the grounds filed in support of the criminal-petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the petitioner/Accused-2-on bail in Cr.No.76 of 2024 under section 8(c) R/w 20(b)(ii)(c) of NDPS Act 1985 on the file of the Gandepalli Police`l Station, Kakinada District, on 19-02-2024. The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of M/s Kakumanu Joji Amrutha Raju, Advocate for the Petitioner and of Public Prosecutor for the Respondent, the Court made the following CRIMINAL Betwee n : Pangi Purna @ Budda @ Nagu AND The State of AP Rep. by its PP ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1 | KAKUMANU JOJI AMRUTHA RAJU 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/A2, seeking regul.ar bail, in Crime No.76 of 2024 of Gandepalli Police Station, Kakinada district. 2| A case has been registered against the Petitioner herein and others for the offence punishable under Section 8(c) read Q=-I a,fJ,P-yd, 2 r7 wl'th 20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short 'the NDPS Act'). 3. Caseofthe prosecution, l'n brief, is that, on 19.02.2024, at about 06.00 PM, on receipt of credible I'nfOrmatiOn, the Sub- Inspector of Police, Gandepalli police Station, along with his staff and mediators, conducted raid at canal bund, situated at the outskirts of Murari village, GandepaIIi MandaI, Kakinada district and found Al to A3 in possession of 250.620 Kgs of Ganja. On seeing the police party, Al and A2 escaped from the spot. A3 was arrested and contraband was seized under cover of a mediators report and a case has been registered against the accused. 4. Heard. Perused the record. 5. A perusal of the material on record goes to show that basing on the confessional statement of co-accused, the name of the petitioner herein was shown as accused in the present case. Pursuant to the said confessional statement, the police arrested the petitioner herein/A2 on 12.09.2024 and since then he is in judicial remand. Nothing has been seized from the possession Of the Petitioner herein and the alleged contraband Was Seized from the possession OfA3. Learned AssI'Stant Public sz2Z,) prosecuto.r submitted that major portion of investigation has been completed. He further submitted that the Petitioner herein is also involved in another Crime. 6. ln view of the aforesaid facts and Circumstances Of the case and, since major portion of investigation has been completed, this court is inclined to grant bail tO the Petitioner/A2 on the following conditions. i) The petitioner/A2 shall be released On bail 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 Sessions Judge-Gum-Special Judge for trial of offences under the NDPS Act, Rajamahendravaram, East Godavar-I district. ii) on release, the petitioner shall appear before the station House Offilcer concerned, every day between 10.00 am and o1,00 pm, till filing of the charge sheet. 7. Accord-lngly, the Criminal Pet'ItiOn iS allowed. sD/-B.CHITTI JOSEPH ASSISTANT R /ITRUE COPY// sECTiQN OF lsTRAR ``\ ) CER To, ,, 1. The I Additional DI'StriCt SessI-OnS Judge Gum Specl-al Court for Trial cases under the NDPS Act 1985, East Godavari DI®StrI-Ct, RaJ'amahendravaram. 2. The Superintendent, central prison, Rajamahendravarm. 3. The StatI'On House officer, Gandepalli Police Stall-on, Kakjnada DI-Strict. 4. One CC to SRI KAKUMANU JOJI AMRUTHA RAJU, Advocate [opuc] 5. Two ccs topuBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of A.P., Amaravati. [ouT] 6. One spare copy. PSD rfes--ct,---it .+-` 1is#*giv&£#l •) n J^N 1\15 HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED:20/01/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.9728 of 2024 ALLOWED