HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 5807 of 2026 DATE: 01.05.2026 Between :

Anirudh Agarwal and another ....Petitioners/accused Nos.10 and 77 AND The State of Telangana and another.

....Respondents : O R D E R :

This Criminal Petition has been filed by the petitioners/accused Nos.10 and 77 seeking to quash the proceedings in S.C.No.1 of 2026 on the file of the II Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad at Nampally, for the offences under Sections 8(c) read with 20(b)(ii)(A), 27 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, ‘the NDPS Act’)

2. Heard Mr. K. Ashok Chakravarthy, learned counsel for the petitioners, and Mr. Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, appearing on behalf of the respondents.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners have not committed any offence and have been falsely implicated in the present crime. The petitioners were not present at the scene of offence nor did the police seized any contraband from the possession of the petitioners. However, based on the confessional statement given by acc