IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMAF FRIDAY ,THE SEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBERS TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA R CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 10815 OF 2025 •'.'V Between: /Setti Uma Maheswara Rao, S/o. Late Appala Swamy, aged about 42 Years, Resident of Sector 9, MVP Colony, Visakhapatnam City. Native of Sivalingapuram Village, Kotturu Panchayat, Anantagiri Mandal, Alluri Settha Rama Raju District Petitioner/Accused-03 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh At Amaravati. Respondent/Compiainant Petition under Section 480 & 483 of BNSS 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 release the petitioner/Accused-3 on bail in Crime No. 181 of 2024 on the file of Pachipenta police station, Parvathipuram Manyam District under section 8 © r/w 20(b)(ii)(C) of NDPS Act 1985 , Dated 13-12-2024. The petition/Appeal coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petition and the grounds filed in support thereof and upon hearing the arguments of Sri KAKUMANU JOJI AMRUTHA RAJU Advocate for the Petitioner, PUBLIC PROSECUTOR (AP) for the Respondent and the Court made the following. 1 APHC010557992025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] FRIDAY,THE SEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 10815/2025 Between: Setti Uma Maheswara Rao ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.KAKUMANU JOJI AMRUTHA RAJU Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT 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.3 on bail in Crime No. 181 of 2024 of Pachipenta Police Station, Parvathipuram Manyam District, registered against the Petitioner/Accused No.3 herein for the offences punishable under Section 8(c) read with Section 20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for brevity ‘the NDPS Act’). , 2 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. Perused the record. 3. The allegation against the petitionfer is that he was indulged in dealing with 317.350 kgs of ganja with the assistance of other accused. The petitioner was arrested on execution of P.T. Warrant on 09.04.2025. He has been in judicial custody for the past 208 days. The remand extension petition was filed and the remand was granted till 07.11.2025. No further remand extension petition was filed. It is reported that there are three similar adverse antecedents against the petitioner. The petitioner is permanent resident of Sivalingapuram Village, Alluri Seetha Rama Raju District. He has got fixed abode. If conditions are imposed, there is no likelihood of his absconding or evading the process of law. Substantial portion of the investigation in so far the involvement of the petitioner is concerned is completed. 4. Considering the detention in the judicial custody beyond the statutory period, no application has been filed for further extension of the remand period, the nature and gravity of allegations levelled against the Petitioner/Accused No.3, this Petitioner/Accused No.3 on bail. Court is inclined to enlarge the 5. In the result, the Criminal Petition is allowed with the following stringent conditions: i. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall be enlarged on bail subject to he executing bond for a sum of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees 3 fifty thousand only), with two sureties each for the like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Salur. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall appear before the Station House Officer concerned, on every Saturday in between 10:00 am and 05:00 pm, till cognizance is taken by the learned the Trial Court, iii. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall not leave the limits of the State of Andhra Pradesh without prior permission from the Station House Officer concerned. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall not commit or indulge in commission of any offence in future. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall cooperate with the investigating officer in further investigation of the case and shall make himself available for interrogation by the investigating officer as and when required, vi. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the court or to any police officer, vii. The petitioner/Accused No.3 shall surrender his passport, if any, to the investigating officer. If he claim that he do not have a passport, he shall submit an affidavit to that effect to the Investigating Officer. II. IV. V. SD/-A.VIJAYA BABU DEPUTY REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To, 1. The l-Additional District & Sessions Judge-cum-Special Sessions Judge for Trail of the case under the Narcotic Drugs an Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Vizianagaram. The Superintendent, Central Prison, Visakhapatnam. 2. 3. The Station House Officer, Pachipenta police station, Parvathipuram Manyam District 4. One CC to SRI. KAKUMANU JOJI AMRUTHA RAJU Advocate [OPUC] Two CCs to Public Prosecutor (AP) High Court of A.P., Amaravati [OUT], One spare copy 5. 6. T HIGH COURT DR.YLR.J DATED:07/11/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.10815of 2025 ALLOWED