I- IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI # FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE iPRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA R^ CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4405 OF 2025 ,rV !Xm Between: Kanta Narsing, s/o Mohan Rao, A/20 years, Caste by ST-Kondu, r/o Kattubanda Village, Annavaram post, Chintapalii Mandal, Anakapalli District. ...Petitioner/Accused No.2 AND represented by the Public Prosecutor for High Court of A.P through Station House Officer, Nakkapalli PS, Anakapalli District. ...Respondent/Complainant The State - Petition under Sections 480 & 483 of BNSS circumstances stated in the memorandum of grounds filed i praying that in the In support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the Petitioner/ accused No. 2 on Regular Bail in Crime No 327 of 2024 of Nakkapalli Police Station. 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 M/s TORATI SHANMUKHA PRASANNA Petitioner, and of PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, for the Respondent; Advocate for the 'APHC010209492025 IN THE H|6H court OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] 7 FRIDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 4405/2025 Between: Kanta Narsing ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.TORATI SHANMUKHA PRASANNA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER: This Criminal Petition u/Sec.480 and 483 of B.N.S.S. has been filed by the petitioner/A2 seeking regular bail in Crime No.327 of 2024 of Nakkapalli Police Station, Anakapalli District. The above said crime was registered against the petitioner and 2. others for the offences punishable under Sections 20(b)(ii)(C), 25 r/w 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Case of the prosecution, in brief is that on 01.12.2024, on receipt of 3. credible information, the ASI along with his staff and mediators rushed to NH-16 road, near Vedullapalem Junction towards Visakhapatnam to Tuni and caught the accused in possession of 20 Kgs of Ganja. The contraband along with other material was seized under the cover of mediators report. 2 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner herein has been in judicial custody from 03.12.2024 and prays this Court to grant bail to the petitioner herein. 5. On the other hand, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor opposed for grant of bail to the petitioner on the ground that the petitioner herein is a cultivator of Ganja. Heard. Perused the entire material on record. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the contraband alleged to be involved in the present crime is only 20 Kgs of ganja which is not commercial quantity. The petitioner has been in judicial custody from 03.12.2025 and he is a permanent resident of Kattubanda Village. As the contraband seized is not of commercial quantity, no reasons need to be recorded as contemplated under Section 37 of the NDPS Act. Most of the witnesses are shown to be official witnesses and the release of the accused would not cause hampering of investigation. As most of the investigation might have been completed and the petitioner has permanent abode and there is no possibility of his fleeing away from justice, as such, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. In the result, the criminal petition is allowed with the following 6. 7. 8. conditions: i. The petitioner herein/A2 shall be released on bail on his executing a personal bond for Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand 7 only) with two (02) sureties for learned Additional Judicial Magistrate a like sum each to the of First Class, Yalamanchili. shall attend before the Station a period of three (03) months' satisfaction of the ") release, the petitioner Officer concerned House once in a fortnight, for and iii) that the petitioner i tamper with the IS directed not to hamper the investigation and prosecution witnesses. Sd/- U. SRI DEVI assistant registrar //TRUE COPY// Section officer at Yalamachili, Anakapalli Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam To, For I- TheAdditionalJudicial District 2- The Superintendent, District 3- The Station House Officer, 4. One CC fOPUCj 5. Two CCs to PUBLIC [OUT] 6. One spare First Class Magistrate Central Prison Nakkapalli Police Station, torati shanmukha Anakapalli District PRASANNA, Advocate to M/s PROSECUTOR, High Court Of Andhra Pradesh copy PSR y /■ high court tiwr.j DATED:02/05/2025 bail order CRLP.No.4405 of 2025 allowed 4