COMMON ORDER

These Criminal Original Petitions have been filed seeking to set aside the orders of remand passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate, Manamelkudi, against the petitioners in Crime No.2 of 2025 [renumbered as Crime No.7 of 2025, on the file of NIB-CID, Sivagangai] dated 10.01.2025 and 12.01.2025, respectively.

2. The petitioner in Crl.O.P.(MD) No.10345 of 2025 is the third accused, and the petitioners in Crl.O.P.(MD) No.10346 of 2025 are the first and second accused in Crime No.2 of 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8 (c), 20(b)(ii)(C), 25, and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act , 1985.

3. The allegation in the FIR is that, on receipt of secret information that certain persons were attempting to illegally smuggle ganja to Sri Lanka, the respondent and the search party proceeded to the seashore and intercepted a container lorry on 10.01.2025 at about 5.45 a.m.; that when the persons inside the lorry, viz., the petitioners in Crl.O.P.(MD) No. 10346 of 2025/A1 and A2, gave evasive replies, and when the police party informed them about the search, they raised no objection to the search being conducted by the police party; that u