THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 4845 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 petitioner/accused No.2 in Crime No.159 of 2024 on the file of the P.S. Wankidi, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8(c) read with 20(b)(ii)(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution in brief is that on 31.10.2024, during the Maharashtra Assembly elections, while the Police were conducting vehicle checks at the interstate checkpoint at Wankidi, at around 04:00 P.M., a container lorry No.MPO6HC1339 was approaching from Asifabad towards Maharashtra. Upon stopping and inspecting the lorry, it was found to have four compartments and out of which, three compartments were empty, and one compartment contained white plastic bags and brown packets. Upon questioning the driver about the contents of these packets, he revealed that they contained Ganja (marijuana). The Police intercepted the petitioner and seized the ganja.

Basing on the same, the aforesaid Crime was registered