CRLP/452/2025 of SHAIK CHAVAPATI UMAR SADHIK Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010022952025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3327] (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 452/2025 Between: Shaik Chavapati Umar Sadhik ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. NANDIREDDY VISHNU VARDHAN REDDY Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 O R D E R:- This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’) has been filed on behalf of the petitioner/accused No.8 to grant anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.139 of 2025 of I Town Narsaraopet Police Station, Palnadu District for the offence punishable under Section 8 (c) read with 20 (b) (ii) (B) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘the NDPS Act’) and Section 303 (2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘BNS’). 2. Brief facts of the case are that, on receipt of information about sale of Ganja near Hindu Cremation ground on the