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lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI WEDNESDAY ,THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE ,_;ri :PRESENT:
THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE DR V R K KRUPA Betwee n :
CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 623 OF 2025 panda Dharma Raju, S/O Narayana, Aged 32years, R/0 Pedaguda VIII Munchingput Mandal, ASR District. Petitioner/A4 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep by its public prosecutor, Through the SHO, Sabbavaram police station, visakhapatnam District, Hl'gh Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati. Respondent/complajnant Petl-lion under sections 437 and 439 of Cr.P.C(New Sections 480 and 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik suraksha sanhita,2023), is filed praying that lan the circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed I'n Support Of the criminal petitI'On, the Hl'gh Court may be pleased io enlarge the Petitioner/A4 on Regular Bail in respect to the crime No.216/2024 on the file of Sabhavaram police Stall-on. The petition coml-ng on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the
arguments of Sri B PARAMEsEWARA RAO, Advocate for the petitioner and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for Respondent, the court made the following
ORDER
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATl (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE DR V R K KRUPA SAGAR CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 623 of 2025
ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short {BNNS') is filed by petitioner/A4, seeking regular bail in Crime No.216 of 2024 of Sabbavaram Police Station, Anakapalli District registered for the offences punishable under Section 20 (b)(ii)(C) r/w 8(c) of NDPS Act,
1985. 2. Heard Sri B.Parameswara Rao, learned counsel for pet'ltioner/A4 and Sri Neelothpal Ganji, the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for respondent/State. 3. Perused the record. 4. Having heard the learned counsel on both sides and perused the record, it is seen that the FIR in this case was registered on 18.09.2024. The raiding party recovered 30 kgs of ganja and arrested Al to A3, remanded them to judicial custody. The present petitioner is A4. He was arrested on 22.09.2024 and was remanded to jud'lcial custody. He seeks regular bail. The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor has opposed the bail application. 5. Earlier, this Court granted bail to A3 in Crl.P.No.8524 of 2024, dated o9.12.2024. The earlier application of this petI'tiOner Was dismissed'gr
I-- 6 conslderlng the fact that the petltlOner has been ln judlclaI custody for more than four months, no contraband was selzed from the pet,tloner, and materlal part of the l'nvestlgatlon IS over, any further contlnuatlon of detentl'on does not seem necessary Hence, thI'S Court finds that petl-tioner/A4 shall be enlarged on bail. 7. ln vl'ew of the said cl'rcumstances, the crl'mI'nal Petlt,Ion ls a"owed pet,'tl'oner hereI-n/A4 sha" be enlarged on ba" on executlng a personal bond for a sum of Rs 30,000/- (Rupees Thl'rty Thousand only) wI'th two suretl'es of the ll'ke sum each to the satl'sfactlon of the learned I- :£ed:ticoensa: lnD:asrtr::=D&O ==1SS`'l?ns. Judge_Gum_S=:-I-ill Jv:d=: floerartnr.:a: :i offences under NDPS Act, V,sakhapatnam. The petitIOner IS Permitted to furnish the sureties from the state of Andhra pradesh.
petltI'Oner/A4 sha" mark hl's attendance before the ,nvestlgatlng Off,'cer on lst and 15th of every month between 10.00 A M and 1.00 P.M tlll fillng of the charge sheet petltloner/A4 sha" make hlmself available for lnVeStlgation by a police offl'cer as and when requI'red, and he sha" not, dlrectly or l'ndlrectly, make any Inducement, threat or promise to any persons acquainted wl'th the facts of the case so as to dlssuade them from dl'scloslng such facts to the court or to any police offf'cer He sha" not l'ndulge ln siml|lar acts of crime and sha" duly attend the trial of the case. The petl'tjoner sha" regularly appear before the competent court and parfI-Cl'Pate jn pre-trI-al and trI-al Process Wl'thout fail. Pendl'ng ml'scellaneous Tol applications, l'f any, shall stand N /ITRUE COPY//i! ASQS:SrTT:^ri±,'i~in=lJl IV4GAMMA I SECTION OFFi
1. The I Addl. District & Sessions Judge Gum special Judge for Ira" of offences under NDPS Act, VIsakhapatnam. 2. The SHO, Sabbavaram police station, visakhapatnam Dl-strict. 3. The SuperI|ntendent, Central Prison, VIsakhapatnam. 4.` One CC to SRl. B PARAMESEWARA RAO Advocate [opuc]
5. Two CCs to the PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court ofA.P [OPUC]
6. One spare copy s-k`h.-~`_ _` -,--__ ... -.,
HIGH COURT DR .VRKS,J DATED:29/01/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.623 of 2025 ALLOWED ``h- `\\\