IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J.SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.16006 of 2025 Date: 05.12.2025 Between:

R.Rathish Goud and another ...petitioners AND The State of Telangana, represented by Public Prosecutor, Through S.H.O., P.S.Nizamabad Town IV, High Court for the State of Telangana and another ...respondents

ORDER

This Criminal Petition has been filed seeking to quash the proceedings in Crime No.417 of 2025 on the file of the Nizamabad Town-IV Police Station, Nizamabad District, wherein the petitioners were arrayed as accused Nos.3 and 4 for the offences punishable under Sections 8(c) read with 22(c) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. Heard Mr.R.Chandrashekar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.V.Jithendar Rao, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent No.1.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have not committed any offence and that they were falsely implicated in the present crime solely on the basis of the confession statement allegedly given by accused No.2. He contends that the said confession statement is not