APHC010088032025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3369] WEDNESDAY ,THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1893/2025 Between: Margani Nageswararao @ Nagu, ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. B PARAMESEWARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: ORDER:- The Criminal Petition, u/Sec.482 of the B.N.S.S. is filed on behalf of the petitioner/accused to grant anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.06/2025 of P & Ec. Station, Rajamahendravaram South. 2) A case has been registered against the petitioner herein for the offence punishable u/Sec.7(B) r/w 8(A) of A.P.(Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2020. 2 3) The case of the prosecution is that: On 03.01.2025 at about 1.00 p.m., on reliable information about illegal preparation of illicitly distilled liquor, the Sub-Inspector of P & Ec. Station, Rajamahendravaram South, along with their staff and mediators and reached puntha road in front of current office road leads to Srikrishnapatnam to Patha Thungapadu of Rajanagaram Mandal and found 1800 liters of fermented jaggery wash in nine plastic drums. Then the police searched for the owner of the FJ wash but nobody found in that place. In the presence of mediators it is revealed that the FJ wash belongs to the accused and hence his name was included in the F.I.R. Police seized the said drums with FJ wash. 4) Heard. Perused the record. 5) Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the case against the petitioner was based on the confession and the mediators report discloses the said fact and prays to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6) Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor opposed to grant bail on the ground that investigation is not completed and four antecedents reported against the petitioner and prays to dismiss the criminal petition. 3 7) The learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submitted that there are four antecedents reported against the petitioner. If anticipatory bail is granted to the petitioner, he may repeat the same offence. In view of the same, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. 8) Accordingly, the criminal petition is dismissed. ______________________________ JUSTICE T.MALLIKARJUNA RAO 05.3.2025 RD/TJN 4 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T.MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO.1893 OF 2025 05.3.2025 RD/TJN