THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5102 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Sections 480 & 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking bail to the petitioner/accused in F.No.HQPOR.No.38 of 2022-CUS.PREV., on the file of XV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad, Rajendrangar, Hyderabad registered for the offences punishable under Sections 21, 23, 25A, 28 & 29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 26.04.2022 at 02:40 hours at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, the petitioner/accused was involved in illicit possession, transport and import of Heroin into India weighing about 1389.100 grams which is a commercial quantity in contravention of the provisions of Section 8 of NPDS Act, 1985 and the offences punishable under Sections 21, 23, 25A, 28 & 29 of the NDPS Act, 1985. The petitioner/accused was arrested on 03.05.2022 at Office of the Principal Commissioner of Customs, GST Bhavan, L.B.Stadium Road, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad-50004 and produced before the learned XV Additional Metropolitan Magistrate at Ra