THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.10626 OF 2025

ORDER :

This criminal petition is filed under Section 480 & 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner/A.1 seeking his enlargement on bail in connection with Crime No.642 of 2025 of Shamirpet Police Station, Cyberabad Commissionerate. The offences alleged against the petitioner are under Sections 8(c) r/w.20(b) (ii)(C), 27 (A) and 29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 19.07.2025 at about 11:20 hours, on credible information that three individuals were in illegal possession and transporting ganja from Malkangiri Town, Odisha, to Hyderabad in an unknown vehicle and that they got down at Rotary-II, Shamirpet and waiting for receivers, the police went to the said place and observed three persons waiting with four bags. The team concealed themselves nearby to apprehend all the persons but however, no receivers arrived until 12:05 hours. Subsequently, the three individuals packed the ganja into four rice sacks and boarded a lorry proceeding to Hyderabad, arranged by one Jeetu. The accused, A