THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 4789 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.1 in Crime No.61 of 2025 on the file of the P.S. Hayathnagar, Rachakonda, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8(C) r/w 20(b)(ii)(C) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Amendment Act, 2001)

(for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 12.01.2025, on receipt of credible information that ganja is being transported illegally in Innova Car bearing registration No.AP 09 BM 5959, the seizing officer went near to Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy SSR Constructions and found that the accused are in possession of 28.78 kgs of ganja and seized the same.

Basing on the same a case was registered in Crime No.61 of 2025.

3. Heard Mr.P.Manoj Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Syed Yasar Mamoon, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has not committed the offence and he was falsely implicated in