APHC010612792025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3396] MONDAY,THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11792 OF 2025 Between: 1. KARANAM SAI KUMAR, S/O. KARANAM RAJU, AGED ABOUT 27 YEARS,R/O. H.NO.1, GOLLALAPALEM VILLAGE, MARUPAKA,RAVIKAMATHAM MANDAL, ANAKAPALLI DISTRICT, A.P. ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND 1. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP BY ITS PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH. ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. GOLLAPALLI MAHESWARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11792 OF 2025 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.1 on bail in Crime No. 33 of 2024 of Pedabayalu Police Station, Alluri Sitharama Raju District, registered against the Petitioner/Accused No.1 for the offence punishable under Sections Section 20(b)(ii)(C) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for brevity ‘the NDPS Act’). 2. Heard Mr. G. Maheswara Rao, the learned Counsel for the Petitioner and Ms. K. Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor. 3. The case of the prosecution in brief is that on 12.07.2024, on receipt of credible information, the police conducted vehicle checking at Kothaputtu Junction, Adugulapattu Panchayat. While check, the Police noticed the accused were transporting 350 Kgs of ganja. Basing on confession statements, the Police seized 350 Kgs of ganja under cover of mediators report and registered the above crime. 4. Learned counsel for the Petitioner would submit that the Petitioner himself surrendered before learned Trial Court on 21.07.2025 and he has been in judicial custody since then. The Petitioner is a permanent resident of Gollalapalem Village, Marupka, Ravikamatham Mandal, Anakapalli District. If he is enlarged on bail with certain stringent conditions, he may not interfere with process of the investigation. The Petitioner is ready to furnish sufficient sureties to the satisfaction of learned Trial Court to assure his presence for the purpose of trial. Learned counsel for the Petitioner would submit that statutory period is over, but Charge Sheet is not yet filed in this matter. 5. Ms. K. Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor would submit that it is a case of seizure of contraband of 350 Kgs of ganja, which is a commercial quantity and opposed to grant bail to the Petitioner. 6. Learned counsel for the Petitioner would submit that liberty may be given to the Petitioner to file a Petition before learned Trial Court seeking statutory bail. 7. In that view, the Criminal Petition is disposed of, granting liberty to the Petitioner to file a Petition before learned Trial Court seeking statutory bail, if in case statutory period is over. __________________________________ DR.VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA, J Date: 19.01.2026 KK