~ IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMA WEDNESDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 757 OF 2025 Between: 1. Chandru Vediyappan, s/o. vediyappan, Aged abt 27 years, R/o.D.No.1441 A, Sasunur Village, Vutakarayl' Taluk, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu. 2. Sarathi Anthoni, S/o. Anthoni, aged abt 21 years, R/o.5/195, Mitapalli village, Kamarajr Nagar, Uthangarai singaripetti p.s, KrishnagirI' District, Tamil Nadu. 3. Aswinkumar Jayakumar, s/o.Jayakumar, Aged abt 21 years, R/o.138, Pagimanur, Kodapanayanapalli, KrishnagI'ri District, Tamil Nadu. 4. EIumalai, S/o.Kuppu Swamy, aged abt 20 years, R/o.5/195, Mitapalli village, Kamarajr Nagar, Uthangarai singaripetti p.s, KrishnagirI® District, Tamil Nadu. Petl-tioner/Al to A4 AND The State ofAndhra Pradesh, SHO, Anakapalli Rural P.S vlzakapatanam, Represented by 1'tS Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati, Guntur District. Respondent petitI-On under Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS (Old Sectl®ons 437 & 439 of cr.p.c), is filed praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the criminal petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the petitioners/Al to A4 on Regular Bail in respect to the crime No.291/2024 on the file ofAnakapalli Rural Police Station. a EEEEEE `v The petition comI-ng On for heart-ng, upon perusing the petI-lion and the grounds filed l'n support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of sri ANAND KUMAR KOCHIRI, Advocate for the petitioners and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent and the court made the foIIowl'ng; ORDER:- _ This Criminal Petition, under sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioners/Al to A4, seeking regular bail, in crime No.291 of 2024 of Gopalapatnam Police Station, visakhapatnam commissionerate, registered for the offence Punishable under Section 20(b)(ii)(B) r/w 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act, 1985. 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on 14.12.2024, on receiving credible information, the sub-Inspector of police, along wl-th his staff land .---.. \ mediators, rushed to Back-'side of Aditya College, Near Burial Ground, Vidya Nagar, Gopalapatnam, Visakhapatnam city, and found the accused in possession of 10 Kgs of Ganja. The contraband, along with other materl'al, was seized under cover of a mediators report. The accused Nos.1 to 4 were arrested and got remanded to judicial custody. 3. Heard. Perused the record. 4. The petitioners herein were arrested on 14.12.2024 and since then they have been languishing in jal'I. The quantity of Ganja allegedly seized from the possession of the accused is 10 Kgs., which is not a commercial quantity. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submitted that major portion of the investigatl'on has been completed and the charge sheet could not be filed for want of inventory. 5. ln view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petI'tiOnerS/Al to A4 on the following conditions. i) The petitioners/Al to A4 shall be released on bail `on their executing personal bond for Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand only) each with two sureties of the like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned ll Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Visakhapatnam. = iii= //TRUE COPY// sD/-B.CHITTI JOSEPH A SsS:ScTT:O##Tz#;EIIcSETR:A R i iiii= F To, 1. The " Addl'tional chief JudI'CiaI Magistrate at vjsakhapatnam 2. The Superintendent, central Jail, VI'SakhaPatnam 3. The S.H.O., Anakapalli Rural Police Stall-On 4. One CC to SRl. ANAND KUMAR KOCHIRI Advocate [OPUC] 5. Two CCs to Public Prosecutor, High Court ofAP [OUT] 6. One spare copy Kj ~/ HIGH COURT SRK,J DATE D.. 05/02/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.757 of 2025 ALLOWED `aib ¥=i;#JJ Fd ,,`J:i_ '1`` ,?? .g£ ; i= -B FEB 1\\5 I.I,../ EFiFEl