\`\ + I, lN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMA THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF M TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE .-PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA RED I. CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2305 OF 2025 SERE Between : y.L.Pawan Kumar @ y.s.pavan Kumar, s/o y.L.Sreenivasulu, Aged about 28 years, Hl'ndu, Resident I-n 6-8-2B, Koljml' Appaswamy street, Hindupur, Sri Satya sai DistrI'Ct. . . .Petitioner/Accused No.3 AND The State of Andhra pradesh, Represented by the public prosecutor, High Court at Amaravathi. ...Respondent/complainant petjtI'On under Section 438 of Cr.P.C (Under SectI'On 482 of BNSS) I-s filed praying that in the circumstances stated in memorandum of grounds of criml'nal petl'tjon, the High court may be pleased to dI'reCt the Station House offI'Cer, Prohjbjtl'on & ExcI-Se Station, Hindupur, srj satya sai District to release the petl-tl'oner/A3 on ba" in the event of h,-s arrest Ion co`nnection wl'th the crime No.17 of 2025 dated o7.01.2025 of Prohibjtl'on & Excise statI®On, Hindupur, srI-Satya sal' Distrl-ct,' The petl-tjon coml-ng on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and memorandum of grounds of criminal petition and upon hearing the arguments of srI' N.Ranga Reddy, Advocate for the pet,'tl'oner and publl'c Prosecutor for the Respondent,I, THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 2305 of 2025 ORDER: The Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagar'lk Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is filed on behalf of the petitioner to grant anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.17/2025 of Prohibition & Excise Station, Hindupur. 2) A case has been registered againstthe petitioner and others for the offences punishable u/Sec.7-B read with 8-B & 8-C of the A.P.Prohibition Act. 3) Case of the prosecution in brief is that on 07.01.2025 as per the orders of the Director of Enforcement Proh & Excise, Vijayawada, vide C.No.DOE/2025/B2, dated 07.01.2025, police conducted raids in several places. Accordingly, they raided the scene of offence at Rachupalli Cross and Konduru Cross to Balampalli bus road of Chalivendula Village, Hindupur, where they found 48 Tropicana VSOP Brandy pet bottles of spurious liquor in a polythene bag in possession of A1. Police seized the contraband and registered the F.I.R. and arrested A1. 4) Heard. Perused the record. t>i- I-z¢ 'l+.,--- ---,' 2 5) Learned counseF'for the petI'tlOner submI-tS that a false case is foisted agalnst the petitioner hereI-n and the petitI'Oner is no way connected to the alleged crI-me. Further, the learned counsel for the petl-tioner subm,Its that the petitioner neI'ther involved l'n the alleged crime nor was present at the scene of offence. 6) on the other hand, learned AssI-Slant Public prosecutor opposed \ grant of anticipatory ba" on the ground that investigatI-On js pending 7) A perusal of the materl-a' on record shows that the petl'tIOner was not apprehended at the scene of offence. Nothlng has been seized from the possession of the petI|tI'Oner herein. ln the facts and circumstances of the case, this court is I-nclined to consider the prayer of petl'tioner for grant of antjcI'PatOry bat-I, however, on certain condl-I,Ions. 8) AccordI-ngly, I.n the event of arrest of petjtI-Oner with regard to thIS crime, he sha" be released on ba" on h,-s executing a personal bond for a sum of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand only) wl'th two suretI-eS each for the 'I'ke sum to the satisfaction of the arresting police officials and also on condI|tiOn that the petitioner sha" make himself avallable for lnVestI'gatI'On as and when required and that he sha" not cause any threat, I'nducement or promise to the prosecution witnesses. iii= iiiE 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 the charge-sheet. 9) Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed. //TRUE COPY, RA RAG TRAR F\ SECmON a+r\-ET To, 1. The ll Additional District and Sessions Judge, Hindupur. \rfat 2. The Station House Offlcer#ohibltlon & Exclse Station, Hlndu¥udr, Sri Satya SaI- District. 3. One CC to Srl-. N.Ranga Reddy, 4. Two CCs to Public Prosecutor, 5, Onesparecopy \~J#J~giv MM Advocate • __,._ [OPUC] igh Court of AP [OUT] ` .` I/ HIGH COURT SRK,J DATED :27/03/2025 ORDER CRLP.No.2305 of 2025 ALLOWED