Page 1 of 1. IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK CRLMC No.3938 of 2025 1) Manoj Pradhan ..... Petitioners 2) Amit Mallik 3) Saurab @ Sourabha Ranjan Mallik 4) Naba @ Nabaghana Sethi Represented By Adv. – Mr. Jugala Kishore Panda -versus- State of Odisha ..... Opposite Party Represented By Adv. – Mr. C.M. Singh, ASC CORAM: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ADITYA KUMAR MOHAPATRA ORDER 25.09.2025 Order No. 01. 1. This matter is taken up through Hybrid Arrangement (Virtual /Physical Mode). 2. Heard learned counsel for the Petitioners and learned counsel for the State. Perused the records. 3. The present application has been filed by the Petitioners with a prayer to quash the entire criminal proceeding arising out of Manamunda P.S. Case No.343 of 2024, corresponding to Special (NDPS) Case No.116 of 2024, pending before the court of learned Addl. Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, Kantamal. 4. Learned counsel for the Petitioner, at this juncture, contended that Petitioners do not want to press this application with liberty to raise all the points at the time of framing of charge by filing a Page 2 of 2. discharge petition. He further submitted that the Petitioners be permitted to surrender before the Court below and move an application for bail. 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the Petitioners, the application is disposed of as not pressed with liberty as prayed for. 6. However, it is directed that in the event the Petitioners surrender before the Court in seisin over the matter within a period of three weeks from today and move an application for bail, the court in seisin over the mater shall consider and dispose of the present application of the Petitioners in accordance with law on the same day by keeping in view the fact that the bar under Section 37 of the N.D.P.S. Act would not be attracted to the facts of the present case. 7. The Case Diary be made available to the concerned court to facilitate disposal of the present application of the Petitioners. 8. Accordingly, the CRLMC is disposed of. Urgent certified copy of this order be granted as per rules. ( Aditya Kumar Mohapatra ) Judge S.K. Rout