1 APHC010575262025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] THURSDAY,THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11141/2025 Between: Purna Chandra Golari ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. RAMINENI SUDHEER Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER: The Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’), seeking to enlarge the Petitioner/Accused No.2 on bail in Crime No.50 of 2025 of Hukumpeta Police Station, Visakhapatnam, registered against the Petitioner/Accused No.2 herein for the offences punishable under Section 20(b)(ii)(C) read with Section 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for brevity ‘the NDPS Act’). 2 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 3. Mr. Ramineni Sudheer, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is working as outsourcing employee in Business Associate and the said company was issued show cause notice to him requiring him to attend duties failing which he would be removed from service. The petitioner was falsely implicated in this case. He has not committed any offence. He is innocent. He is the sole bread winner of his family. The petitioner is permanent resident of Odissa State. He has got fixed abode. If he enlarge on bail he would abide by any condition imposed by this Court and urged to enlarge the petitioner on bail. 4. Per contra, Ms. P.Akila Naidu, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor vehemently opposed to enlarge the petitioner on bail that the petitioner was involved in dealing with commercial quantity of ganja. The investigation is at nascent stage and it is urged to dismiss the petition. 5. As seen from the record, the petitioner/accused No.2 was spot arrested while he was indulged in dealing with 100 kgs of ganja. It is a commercial quantity. So far only seven witnesses are examined. The investigation is still at a nascent stage, and several witnesses are yet to be examined. There are no merits in this case for grant of bail to the petitioner. Hence, the petition is liable to be dismissed at present. 3 6. In the result, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. _________________________ DR. Y. LAKSHMANA RAO, J Date: 13.11.2025 S D P 4 THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11141 OF 2025 13.11.2025 S D P