APHC010470362025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3521] TUESDAY,THE SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 9327/2025 Between: 1.YERROLU SAL KUMAR ALIAS CHOTU ALIAS PADA SAI, S/O JITHENDRA, AGED ABOUT 21 YEARS, R/O, MVR COLLEGE, CHINAGANTYADA, PATHA GAJUWAKA, VISHAKAPATANAM CITY, VISHAKAPATNAM DISTRICT ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1.THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep by its Public Prosecutor, A.P. High Court Building, Amaravathi. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1.T M K CHAITANYA 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.3 on bail in S.C.No.455 of 2023 on the file of the learned I Additional District & Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam, 2 registered for the offence punishable under Sections 457, 386, 392, 307, 506, 342, 347, 509, 354, 327, 324, 364-A, 411 & 414 of the Indian Penal Code, 18601 read with 120-B, read with 34 of the I.P.C., and Section 27(A)&(B) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 19852. 2. Heard the learned Counsel for the Petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 3. A learned Single Judge of this Court in Crl.P.No.4215 of 2024 dated 19.10.2024 while dismissing the Criminal Petition, liberty was given to the Petitioner to renew his application as and when charges are framed. 4. Ms. P.Akhila Naidu, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that charges have not yet been framed by the learned Trial Court. The Petitioner is 21 years old and he has been in the judicial custody from the past two years and nine months. When the alleged offence was taken place, the Petitioner is 19 years old. 5. This being a case before the learned I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam is an under-trial case, the learned Sessions Judge is required to give priority to the case for early disposal, inasmuch as right to get speedy justice is one of the fundamental rights enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. 6. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is disposed of, with a direction to the learned I Additional Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam to frame charges as 1 the I.P.C., 2 the NDPS Act 3 early as possible preferably within a period of one month from the date of this order. Later, the Petitioner is at liberty to renew his application. _________________________ DR. Y. LAKSHMANA RAO, J Date: 07.10.2025 VTS