The petitioner in Crl.P.No.3930 of 2018 is A.1 by name S. Chandra Sekhar, and the petitioner in Crl.P.No.5050 of 2018 is A.2 by name K. Nikhil Reddy of Cr.No.158 of 2017 of Police Station (Proh.& Excise), Quthbullapur of Ranga Reddy district, State of Telangana, registered for the offences punishable u/sec.8 r/w 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 ( for short, the NDPS Act), for they are illegally in conscious possession of Alprazolum-a psychotropic substance defined in Sec.2(xxii) of the NDPS Act.

2. As per the prosecution case on some reliable information on 26.12.2017 evening, the Excise officials proceeded to Shapur Nagar for conducting raids and when they were present in front of the Muthoot Finance at Shapur Nagar towards Balanagar to Narsapur Road, along with panch witnesses-the respective VRAs of Jeedimetla, they found one person moving suspiciously and trying to skulk away on seeing them and they apprehended the person and on enquiry, the person disclosed his name as S. Chandra Sekhar and other details (described as A.1) found putting his hands in his pant pocket and on suspicion of any contraband, he was issued notice u/sec.50(1) of NDPS A