CRLP/9837/2024 of GADHI ARJUN Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010605902024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH [3327] AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.9837 OF 2024 Between: Gadhi Arjun ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. KALLA TULASI DURGAMBA Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following ORDER: This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed by the petitioner/A1, seeking anticipatory bail, in connection with NDPS SC No.33 of 2021 on the file of the learned I Additional District and Sessions Judge, East Godavari district, at Rajahmundry, arising out of Crime No.34 of 2020 of Mothugudem Police 2 Station, East Godavari district, registered for the offence punishable under Section 8(c) read with 20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘the NDPS Act’). 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 27.07.2020, at about 06.30 PM, the Sub-Inspector of Police, Mothugudem