IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MAY S TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 43fi7 OF ynoa Kl O fft Between: Lingeti Sanyasi Niadu, S/o Satyam Naidu Chintalaveedhi Village Lingeti Panchayat, Pedabayalu Mandal District Age 23 years, R/o , ASR ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED No.6 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, through Station G.Madugula Police Station, Rep. by Public Prosecutor, Amaravati. House officer, , High Court at ...RESPONDENT Petition under Section 437 & 439 of Cr.P.C / Sec 480 & 483 of 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/ A6 on bail in connection with Crime No. 54 of 2024 of G.Madugula Police Station This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and Ramineni Sudheer, Advocate for the Petitioner (AP) on behalf of the Respondent The Court made the following order: upon hearing the arguments of Sri and the Public Prosecutor APHCOI 0206372025 r IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRE^NT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T IMALLIKARJUNA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 43fi7/7n9^ [3369] RAO Between: Lingeti Sanyas! Niadu ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.RAMINENI SUDHEER Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT This Criminal Petition, u/Sec.480 & 483 of the BNSS, has been filed by the petitioner/A6, seeking bail, in Crime No.54/2024 of G.Madugula Police Station, ASR District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the offence punishable u/Sec.111(2)(b) of B.N.S and Sec.20(b)(ii)(C) , 25 r/w 8(c) Of NDPS Act. Heard learned counsel for the Public Prosecutor representing the respondent/State. 3. petitioner and the learned Assistant 2 Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on 02.12.2024 at 4.00 pm, on . 4. receipt of credible information regarding illegal possession and transportation of ganja, the S.l of Police, along with staff and mediators rushed to Eedulabayalu junction, G.Madugula Mandal and found four persons in suspicious circumstances. On enquiry, they disclosed their identity particulars as that of A1, A4 to A6 and police found 400 kgs of ganja in their possession. Police arrested them and remanded them to judicial custody and seized the contraband. 5. Heard. Perused the record. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that major part of the 6. investigation is completed except filing of charge sheet for want of RFSL report and prays to dismiss the petition. Learned counsel for the petitioner contended that the petitioner has 7. been in judicial custody since 02.12.2024 and he has permanentabode and prays to allow the petition. 8. The record shows that the petitioner has been in judicial custody from 02.12.2024. The seized contraband is 400 kgs of ganja which is huge quantity. In view of bar contained under Section 37 of the NDPS Act, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner at this stage. 9. In the result, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. Sd/- KJ RAJABABU ASSISTANT REGISTRAR / //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To, 1. The Judicial First Class Magistrate, Paderu, Alluri Sitarama Raju District 2. The Station House Officer, G.Madugula Police Station , Alluri Sitarama Raju District. t ' 3. The Central Jail, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District 4. One CC to Sri Ramineni Sudheer, Advocate [OPUC] 5. Two CC to Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh Amaravathi. [OUT] 6. Three CD Copies at MV gsc -i f HIGH COURT V DATED: 02/05/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.4367 of 2025 dismissing the criminal petition