OMa IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH :: AMARA' O ■.j MONDAY .THE FIFTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE ) PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4531 OF 2025 Between: ROUTHU MALLESH, S/o Kanaka Rao Age 45 years, presently R/o Sundarayya Colony Gajuwaka, Visakhapatnam ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED No.1 AND THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, through Station House officer, Narsipatnam Police Station, Rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court at Amaravati. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Petition under Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court pleased to release the Petitioner/AI on bail in connection with Crime No. 50 of 2025 of Narsipatnam Police Station This Petition coming on for hearing, Meraprandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon hearing the arguments of Sri RAMINENI SUDHEER .Advocate for the Petitioner and the Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent No. upon perusing the The Court made the following:ORDER |,PHC010215602025 ■ !N THE H!GH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) ■ u [3369] MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4531/2025 Between: Routhu Mallesh ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT 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: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the BNSS, has been filed by the petitioner herein/A1, seeking regular bail, in Crime No.50 of 2025 of Narsipatnam Police Station, registered for the offences punishable under Sections X 20(b)(ii)(C), 25 read with 8(c) of the NDPS Act. 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief is that on 03.03.2025 receipt of credible information, the Sub-Inspector of police along with his staff and mediators rushed to polytechnic college, and caught the accused in possession of 22 Kgs of Ganja. The contraband along with other material was seized under the cover of mediators report. on ■"1, 3. Heard. Perused the record. 2 Learned counsel for the petitioner euntends that the 4. petitioner has been in judicial custody from 03.03.2025 and prays to grant bail to the petitioner herein. 5. On the other hand, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor opposed to grant bail on the ground that contraband allegedly involved in the present crime is 22 Kgs of Ganja, which is a commercial quantity and further submits that the petitioner herein has involved in 69 other crimes. In view of the gravity of offence and involvement of 6. commercial quantity of ganja and in view of the previous crime record of the petitioner, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. 7. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. X SDl- N NAGAMMA ASSISTANT REGISTRAR / //TRUE COPY// SECTION^OFFICER To 1. The I Addl. District & Sessions Judge/SpI Judge For Trial of offence under BDPS Act Visakhapatnam. 2.’Vhe Station House Officer Narsipatnam Police Station 3. The Superintendent Central Prison, Visakhapatnam 4. Two CC to the Public Prosecutor, High Court at Amaravati.[OUT] 5. OneCCto SRI. RAMINENI SUDHEER, Advocate [OPUC] 6. Three CD Copies * HIGH COURT DATED:05/05/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.4531 of 2025 disi^issing the crl petition