THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.7933 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Sections 480 and 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking bail to the petitioners/accused Nos.2 to 6 in Crime No.74 of 2025 on the file of the P.S. Gopalapuram, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8(C) r/w 20(b)(ii)(C), 25, 27(a) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution in brief is that on 17.04.2025, the petitioners were red-handedly apprehended in Room No.104 of Sri Laxmi Lodge, Regimental Bazar, Secunderabad, while found in possession of 58 kgs. of ganja. Basing on the same, present crime was registered.

3. Heard Mr.P.Vikas Raj, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Syed Yasar Mamoon, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners have not committed the offence and they were falsely implicated in the above crime. He further submitted that the alleged contraband was seized from the possession of accused No.1 and there are no allega