THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N. TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.8985 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings in S.C.NDPS.No.156 of 2024 on the file of the learned Metropolitan Sessions Judge at Nampally, against the petitioner/accused No.19.

2. Heard Mr.Bandaru S Prasanth, learned counsel for petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. The petitioner is arrayed as accused No.19 in S.C.NDPS.No.156 of 2024 for the offences under Sections 8 (C) r/w. 20 (b) (ii) (B) and Section 27 of The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS ACT’).

4. The prosecution case in brief is that the petitioner’s name has come to light upon the confessional statement of accused No.1 as consumer.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the prosecution, after investigation, filed charge sheet against the petitioner only on the alleged confessional statement of the accused No.1, without any material substance. A coordinate bench of this Court had considered the simi