CRLP/912/2025 of SAHU PRADEEP @ SAHU PRATAP Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010040692025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3333] (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE V.SUJATHA CRIMINAL PETITION No.912 of 2025 Between: Sahu Pradeep @ Sahu Pratap ...PETITIONER AND The State of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. HABIBULLA SHAIK Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following: 2 VS,J Crl.P.No.912 of 2025 ORDER : This petition, under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (Section 482 of Cr.P.C.), is filed by the petitioner/accused No.1 in C.C.No.4375 of 2022 on the file of the learned Special Judicial First Class Magistrate for Prohibition & Excise, Guntur, seeking to quash the proceedings against him in the said case. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State. 3. Brief facts of the case are as follows: (i) On 12.09.2019 at about 4.00 p.m., on receipt of credible information about sale and purchase of prohibited gutka and khaini products, the S.I. of Police, Pattabhipuram Police Station, along