IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVAT m m > FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4392 OF 2025 i- I m~ yS-yjfi /■ % Between: Korupalli Ravi Teja @ Ravi, S/o. Shankara Rao, aged about 31 Years, R/o. Vanthadapalii Village, Jerrila Panchyathi, G.K. Veedhi Mandal, Alluri Seetha Rama Raju District ...Petitioner/A3 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Through Station House Officer, Koyyuru Police Station, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Amaravathi, Guntur District ...Respondent/Complainant praying that in the circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to release the petitioner/A3 on Bail in connection with Crime No.09 of 2025 of Koyyuru Police Station, Alluri Seetha Rama Raju District, U/s 20(b)(ii)(B) r/w 8(C) of NDPS Act, 1985, dated 12-03-2025. Petition under Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS The Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petition and the memorandum of grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of SRI K PRIDHVI RAJU Advocate for the Petitioner, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent; / APHC010207792025 / IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] FRIDAY .THE SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4392/2025 Between: Korupalli Ravi Teja @ Ravi ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesha Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.KPRIDHVI RAJU Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT ORDER: This Criminal Petition, u/Sec.480 & 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A3, seeking bail, in Crime No.09/2025 of Koyyuru Police Station, ASR District. A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the 2. offences punishable u/Sec.111(2) of B.N.S. and u/Secs.20(b)(ii)( B), 25 r/w 8(c) of the NDPS Act. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant 3. Public Prosecutor representing the respondent/State. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that, on 12.3.2025 at about 11.00 4. am, on receipt of credible information, regarding illegal possession and transportation of ganja, the S.l of Police, along with staff and mediators rushed to Cheedipalem Village, outskirts of Koyyuru Mandal and conducted vehicle checking. They found one Bajaj pulsar motorcycle coming from and • 2 on seeing police, the rider and pillion rider of the vehicle and tried to motorcycle stopped the escape. But police apprehended them and on enquiry, they disclosed their identity particulars as A1 and A2. Police found 6 Kgs of Ganja in their possession and got them into involvement of A3 in the commission of the offence. custody. They confessed the During the course of investigation, police arrested this petitioner/A3 Perused the record. on 14.3.2025. 5. 6. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that a crime came to be registered on 12.3.2025 and basing on the confession statement of other accused, who were found to be in possession of 5 Kgs of Ganja, this petitioner was arrested on 14.3.2025 and since then he has been in judicial custody, as such, prayed to allow the Criminal Petition. 7. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor has and opposed to grant bail to the petitioner. After careful observation of the material made on behalf of both sides, it shows that the not disputed the above fact 8. on record and submissions petitioner was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 14.3.2025 basing statement of other accused. Evidently no contraband has been seized from the possession of the petitioner. Since the from 14.3.2025, this Court found that on the confession petitioner has been in remand most of the investigation pertaining to the role played by the petitioner in the commission of the offence would be completed. It is submitted that the petitioner is permanent resident of no possibility of his fleeing away Vanthadapalli Village, ASR District, there iIS 3 from justice and most of the witnesses are official witnesses and the release of the petitioner would not cause tampering of evidence and hampering of Considering the entire material on record, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. In the result, the Criminal Petition is allowed with the following investigation. 9. conditions; (i) The petitioner/A3 herein shall be released on his executing a personal bond for Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) with two sureties for a like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned I Additional District & Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge for trial of offences under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam; (ii) On release, the petitioner shall appear before the Station House Officer concerned once in a fortnight in between 10.00 am and 1.00 pm for a period of three (03) months; (iii) the petitioner shall not tamper with the evidence and hamper the investigation and shall cooperate for investigation. /». A. /N SD/- M.SRINIVAS ISTRAR SECTION OFFICER ASSISTANT //TRUE COPY// For To, 1. The I Additional District & Sessions Judge- Special Judge for Trial of Offences under NDPS Act, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District 2. The Superintendent, Central Prison, Visakhapatnam. 3. The Station House Officer, Koyyuru Police Station, Alluri Sitharama Raju District 4. One CC to SRI. K PRIDHVI RAJU Advocate [OPUC] 5. Two CCs to PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, High Court of Andhra Pradesh [OUT] 6. One spare copy PSR HIGH COURT TMR,J DATED :02/05/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.4392 of 2025 ALLOWED - ^