CRLP/139/2025 of BUDDIGA DEVUDU Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. SURESH REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No. 139 of 2025 ORDER: As per the directions of My Lord the Hon’ble the Chief Justice, this Criminal Petition has been allotted to this Bench by notice dated 25.3.2025 and the same is treated as part of the roster effective from 26.3.3025. 2. This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS’), is filed by the petitioner/A2, seeking anticipatory bail, in Crime No.141 of 2024 of Special Enforcement Bureau Station, Rajamahendravaram-North, registered for the offence punishable under Section 7B read with 8B of the A.P. Prohibition (Amendment) Act, 2020. 3. The case of the prosecution is that on 20.3.2024 at about 6.00 A.M., on credible information about selling of illicit distilled arrack, the Enforcement Inspector, Special Enforcement Bureau, Rajamahendravaram-North, along with mediators, went to the house bearing D.No.58-17-17 situated in Sanjeevayya Nagar, Rajamahendravarm Urban and there they found A1 selling illicit distilled arrack to the public. After conducting panchanama and seizing contraband, the Enforcement Inspector arrested A1, who 2 was remanded to judi