APHC010679412025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3521]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

MONDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 13074/2025 Between:

Yarlagadda Raju ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused:

1. K.V.S.S.PRABHAKARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent/complainant:

1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following:

ORDER:

The Criminal Petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’) by the Petitioner/Accused for granting of pre-arrest bail in connection with Crime No.101 of 2025 of Prohibition and Excise Station, Kothapeta Dr Ambedkar Konaseema District, registered for the alleged offence punishable under Section 7-B read with 8-A and B of the Andhra Pradesh Prohibition Act, 1995 (for brevity ‘the APP Act’).

2. Heard the learned Counsel for the Petitioner and the learned Assistant Public Prosecutor.

3. As seen from the record, the Prohibition and Excise officials of Kothapeta drafted a special report alleging that the petitione