ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘ BNSS , 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings in S.C.NDPS.No.274 of 2022 on the file of the learned Metropolitan Session Judge, Nampally at Hyderabad, against the petitioner/accused No.8.

2. Heard Ms.Padmaja Gadiraju, learned counsel representing the learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. The petitioner is arrayed as accused No.8 in S.C.NDPS.No.274 of 2022 for the offences under Section 8 (c) r/w. 21 (b) and Section 27 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

4. The prosecution case in brief is that the petitioner’s name has come to the fore upon the confessional statement of accused Nos.1 and 2 as consumer.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the prosecution, after investigation, fi