~ --`_ L lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT fr WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF FEBRUARYSr uj_. TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE .-trt Eiii --\=t, =i` :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1072 OF 2025 Between : Kundeti Nageswara Rao, S/o. K. Bangarayya, aged about 34 years, R/o. Bandabayalu Village, Lothugedda Panchayat, Chinthapalli Mandal, Alluri Sitharama Raju District, ...Petitioner/Accused No.4 AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh. ...Respondent petition under sect-Ion 480 & 483 of BNSS (Old Sections 437 & 439 of cr.p.c), praying that in the circumstances stated 'ln the memorandum of grounds filed in support of the Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the petitioner/Accused No.4 on bail pending disposal Of crime No.30/2024 of A. Annavaram P.S., Now AIIur-I Sitharama Raju District. EEiiiE counsel forthe petitioner : Sri Gollapalli Maheswara Rao Counsel for the Respondent : Assistant Public Prosecutor. E= The Court made the following ORDER: T== +i +=q.:HiHED O THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1072 OF 2025 ORDER: This Criml'naI Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A4, seekl'ng bail in Crime No.30/2024 of Annavaram Police Station, Alluri Sitharamaraju District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner and others for the offences under Sections 20(b)(ii)(C), 25 I/w 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (for short llthe NDPS Act). 3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on o9.08.2024, on credible information regarding illegal possession and transportation of ganja, the S.I of Police, Annavaram Police Station along with staff rushed to Lothugedda bridge, Lothugedda Panchayat and found A1, A3 to A6 while they were in possession of 3 gunny bags containing ganja weighing 102.1 kgs. The contraband along with other material was seized under the cover of mediators report and the accused were arrested on the same day i.e. on 09.8.2024. 4. Heard. Perused the record. 5. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that major part of the investigation is completed except filing of charge sheet. 3: ` I, `\>\\ I, 2 6. Wl'thout going into the merits of the case, the petitioner was arrested on 09.8.2024 and since then he I-s languishing in jail l'.e. for more than 180 days as on today. police have not completed the l'nvestigation and filed the charge sheet. As such the petitioner is entitled for default bail. 7. ln view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner herein, on the following conditions. (l') The petitioner/A4 herein shall be released on hl's executing a Personal bond for Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand only) with two sureties for the ll-ke sum each to the satisfaction of the learned I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam; (ii) On release, the petitioner shall appear before the station House Officer concerned once in a week i.e. on every sunday between 10.00 a.m. and 05.00 p.m., till filing of charge sheet. 8. Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. SD/-SK MD RAFI ASSISTANTI REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// ForA Tol 1. The I Additional District & Session Judge-Special Judge for Trial of Offences under NDPS Act: Visakhapatnam. 2. The Superintendent, Central Prison, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District. 3. The Station House Officer, Annavaram Police Station, AIIuri Sitharamaraju District. 4. One CC to Sri Gollapalli Maheswara Rao, Advocate [OPUC] 5. Two CCs to Public Prosecutor (AP) High Court of Andhra Pradesh [OUT] 6. Onespare copy >U) ZJI u t\ EE : ASSslESREFGF:ScTER=l HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED..12/02/2025 BAIL ORDER CRLP.No.1072 of 2025 ALLOWED 'k+ ± \2EEB\tl15