APHC010526582025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3521]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

FRIDAY,THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 10275 OF 2025 Between:

R AMACHANDRAN, S/O. SELVAM, AGED ABOUT 40 YEARS,R/O. KALYANASUNDARAM, POONTHAMALLINAGARSELLUR, MADHURAI, TAMIL NADU STATE.

...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND T HE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, Rep by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused:

1. ADAPA SUDHAKAR RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant:

1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following 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.5 on bail in Crime No.294 of 2022 of Kasimkota Police Station, Anakapalli District, registered against the Petitioner/Accused No.5 herein for the offence punishable under Sections

20(b)(ii)(C) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for brevity ‘the NDPS Act’).

2. Heard the learned Counsel for the Pe