CRLP/9445/2024 of DEEPAK RANJAN DHAL Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010585092024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH [3327] AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 9445/2024 Between: Deepak Ranjan Dhal ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Pradesh Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. KAKUMANU JOJI AMRUTHA RAJU Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following Order: This Criminal Petition, under Sections 482 of BNSS, has been filed by the petitioner/A2, seeking anticipatory bail, in Crime No.128 of 2024 of Salur Rural Police Station, Parvathipuram Manyam District. 2. A case has been registered against the petitioner herein and others for the offence punishable under Section 20(b)(ii)(C) read with 8(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘the NDPS Act’). 3. Case of the prosecution is that, on 24.09.2024, on receipt of credible information about the illegal transportation of ganja, the SI of police along with his staff and mediators rushed to outskirts of Jeegiram Village of Salur Mandal, and star