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.3 in Crime No.98 of 2025 on the file of Masab Tank Police Station, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8 (c) r/w 20(b)(ii)(A) and 27(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution in brief is that, on 22.04.2025 at 15:00 hrs, as per the instructions of the SHO, Masabtank Police Station, the complainant, along with staff, was conducting vehicle checks in the Masabtank area in vehicle TS09PA3549 with driver HG-8247 (Md. Feroj Khan). While on duty near Mahaveer Hospital, Masabtank, at around 16:30 hrs, the driver of an Innova (Reg. No. AP28DK0789) failed to stop when signaled by the police. The accused (Driver) was apprehended, and during enquiry, he confessed that he became addicted to OG weed in 2017 through a friend named Harsha. After completing his studies, he returned to India and began managing his parents’ dental hospital at Masabtank. He contacted a person named Dhawal through his Australian friend Akhil