CRLP/1903/2025 of SETTY PAVANKUMAR @ PAVAN Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

1 APHC010088542025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3369] (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE T MALLIKARJUNA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 1903 OF 2025 Between: Setty Pavankumar @ Pavan ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused: 1. KARRE SATYANANDAM Counsel for the Respondent/complainant: 1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following ORDER: This is the 2nd Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘BNSS’) [previously filed under section 438 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973], seeking anticipatory bail to Petitioner/Accused No.4 in Crime No.741 of 2023 of Gajuwaka Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionerate, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 20(b)(ii)(C) read with 8(c), 25 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, ‘the NDPSA’). 2 2. The Prosecution's case, in summary, asserts that on 12.12.2023, at about 09.00 hours, on credible information regarding illegal possession and transportation of