HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. SREENIVASA REDDY Criminal Petition No.1274 of 2025

Order:

This Criminal Petition, under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A9, seeking regular bail, in C.No.GEN/INT/14/ 2025-PREV-O/o COMMR-CCP-VIJAYAWADA, on the file of Customs Commissionerate (Preventive), Vijayawada, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 132 and 135(1)(b) of the Customs Act, 1962 and Section 480 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

2. Brief facts of the case are that on 09.01.2025, on receipt of specific intelligence that certain group of persons were carrying smuggled gold of foreign origin without any valid documents in Train No.16382 (Pune Express) and going via Kadapa and Tadipatri, the officials of the Customs Preventive Commissionerate, Vijayawada boarded different compartments viz., S1, S5, M1 and M3 of the said Train at Kadapa Railway Station and kept surveillance of certain group of suspected persons. During the surveillance in the above mentioned compartments, the team of officers caught hold 11 accused and all of them confirmed and accepted that they were carrying smuggled gold with different quan