ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking anticipatory bail to the petitioner/accused No.4 in Crime No.12 of 2025 dated 21.02.2025 on the file of SHO Prohibition and Excise, Dhoolpet, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Section s 8 (c) r/w 20(b)(ii)(B) and 27(b) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution in brief is that on 21.02.2025, on receipt of credible information, the Police apprehended the petitioner and other accused and seized 2.210 kgs of ganja. Basing on the same, present crime was registered. x

3. Heard Mr. Umesh Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Syed Yasar Mamoon, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has not committed the offence and basing on the confession statement given by the other accused, he has been falsely implicated in the above crime and the provisions of NDPS Act are not attracted against the petitioner. Even according to the prosecution, the alleged contraband seized is 2.210 kg