ORDER :

Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa, J.

The instant criminal petitions under Section 483(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) have been filed by the Petitioner / State seeking cancellation of the bail granted to Respondents / Accused Nos.2, 5 to 7, 16 and 17 vide Orders dated 05.01.2026 in Crl.M.P.Nos.347, 348, 349 and 359 of 2025 by the learned II Additional District and Sessions Judge, Madanapalle in connection with Crime No.179 of 2025 of II Town Police Station, Madanapalle.

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is that the de facto complainant is the mother of the deceased namely Yamuna. On 06.11.2025, the said Yamuna left the house stating that she was going to Araku Valley. Subsequently, on 11.11.2025 at about 04:50 hours, the son of the de facto complainant received a phone call from the mobile phone of Yamuna informing that she had died at Tirupati. During enquiry, the caller disclosed her name as Pilli Padma and informed that Yamuna had died when she came to sell her kidney.

It is further alleged that, upon contacting one Suri, who was acquainted with the deceased Yamuna, the de facto complainant was informed that he was with Pilli Padma and Satya at a lodge in Tirupati and that the said Pilli Padma and Satya had, through mediation, taken Yamuna to Global Multi Specialty Hospital, Madanapalle, where a kidney transplantation surgery was performed on 09.11.2025 and her kidney was transplanted to another person. It is alleged that on 10.11.2025 between 05:00 a.m. and 06:00 a.m., Yamuna died and thereafter her body was shifted to Tirupati. On the instructions of the de facto complainant, the said Suri dialled 112 and informed the police, pursuant to which the Tirupati Police secured the said persons and handed them over to Madanapalle II Town Police Station, as the surgery had allegedly taken place at Madanapalle.

It is the further case of the prosecution that, upon enquiry at Madanapalle, it came to light that Doctor Anjaneyulu of Global Multi Specialty Hospital, SBI Colony, Madanapalle, along with another doctor from Bangalore, in collusion with Balu, a Dialysis Technician working at Government Hospital, Madanapalle, Mehraz, a Dialysis Technician working at Government Hospital, Kadiri, and others namely Pilli Padma, Satya and Suri, induced the deceased Yamuna with money and got her kidney transplanted illegally, due to which she died. It is also alleged that thereafter the Accused attempted to send the dead body of the deceased to her native village by suppressing the true facts relating to her death.

3. Heard Sri M.Lakshminarayana, learned Public Prosecutor assisted by Ms.K.Priyanka Lakshmi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on behalf of Petitioner / State and Ms.Ayesha Azma, Sri P.Nagendra Reddy and Sri T.Diwakar Reddy, learned counsel for Respondents / Accused.

4. Learned Public Prosecutor on behalf of Petitioner / State would submit that the Respondents / Accused involved in a grave and organized illegal kidney transplantation racket and that the investigation is still at a crucial and nascent stage. Learned Public Prosecutor would contend that the Investigating Officer conducted investigation by visiting the scene of offence, preparing rough sketch, seizing material objects used for kidney surgery under cover of Scene Observation Report, conducting inquest over the deceased in the presence of mediators and forwarding the material objects to Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati for Histopathology examination. It is further submitted that as many as 22 witnesses were examined and their statements were also recorded.

Learned Public Prosecutor would further submit that in the above crime, 22 persons were arrayed as Accused and several Accused persons including the Respondents herein were arrested during investigation. During the course of investigation, the Investigating Officer filed an application seeking police custody of the Accused persons for custodial interrogation. However, d