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Andhra Pradesh High Court – Amravati
Botla Venkata Kasi Vardhan Alias Kasi vs The State Of Andhra Pradesh on 21 July, 2025
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMA
MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JULY,
TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE
:PRESENT:
THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO
CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 6441 OF 2025
Betwee n :
Bot'a Venkata Kasi Vardhan @ Kasi, S/o Kasaiah, Age 23 years, D.No.41-
28/1-77, Beside Sample Building Kalpana Print Bazar, Ranigar'lthota
Vijayawada.
. . .Petitioner/Accused No.2
AND
The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep by its S.H.O. Mangalagiri Rural Police
Station Guntur District.
...Respondent/Comp[ainant
petition under section 480 & 483 of BNSS, 2023 (Old Sections of
437 and 439 of Cr.P.C) is filed praying that in the circumstances Stated in
memorandum of grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be
pleased to pass an a,ppropriate order enlarging him on Bail, in connection
with crime 148/2025 of Mangalagiri Rural P.S. pending the filing of the
charge sheet, trial thereof, in the interest of Justice and Equity;
The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Petition and
memorandum of grounds of criminal petition and u-pon hearing the
arguments of Sri V.N.S.L.Sas-ldhar.V, Advoca.te for the Petitioner and
Public Prosecutor for the Respondent, the Court made the following;
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Dr. YLR, I
Crl.P.No.6441 of 2025
Dated 21.07.2O25
The Court made the following:
ORDER:
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The CrI’minal Petition has been filed u Sections 437 and 439 of
the Code of CrI|minaI Procedure, 1973 (for brevity lthe cr.p.c.I)/ sections
480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik SurakSha sanhita, 2023 (for brevity
fthe BNSSJ), seeking to enlarge the petitioner/Accused No.2 on ba” in
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cr.No.148 of 2025 of MangalagI|ri Rural Pdlice StatI|On, Guntur DI-Strict,
registered against the petitioner/Accused No.2 herein for the offences
punishable under section 8(c) read wI’th 20 (b) (ii)(B) of the Narcotic Drugs
and psychotropI-C Substances Act, 1985 (for b+evity !the NDPS Act‘).
2. The case of the prosecution is that dn o4.04.2025, on receipt of
credI-ble information regarding illegal possessijon of Ganja and MDMA, the
Inspector of police, Mangalagiri Rural Circllle, along with his staff and
mediators, conducted a raid at Delight Dhaba, llYerrabalem. Accused Nos.1
to 4, who were friends and drug addicts, Were found in possession of
narcotics. Accused No.1 had earlier purchased 10g of MDMA from
Accused No.6 (from Bangalore) during Ramzan, sold part of I-I tO Accused
No.2, and retained the rest. Accused No.2 brought 1.2 kg of Ganja, which
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was dI-Vided into packets. At the Dhaba, they consumed Ganja and planned
to sell the contraband. Then the police raidgd and caught hole of the
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Dr. YLR, J
CrI.P.No.6441 of 2025
Dated 21.07.2O25
Accused Nos.1 to 4, found ‘ln their possession 1.2 KGs of Ganja, 5.980
Grams of MDMA, seized the contraband and one KTM bike under a cover
of mediators’ report and arrested them.
3. Sri V.N.S.L.Sasidhar, the learned counsel for the petitioner, submits
that the petit|loner has not committed any offence; he is falsely implicated in
this case; he -ls sole breadwinner of his family; he is ready to abide any
conditions to be imposed by this Court; and urged to enlarge the petitioner
on bail.
4, Per contra, Ms.P.Akila Naidu, the learned Assistant Public
Prosecutor, opposed in granting of bail stating that some more material
witnesses have to be examined;. investigation is.not completed; if the
petitioner is enlarged on bail, he would not be available for the investigation
and he would escape from the clutches of law; and it is urged to dismiss –
the bail application.
5. Perused the record.
6. As seen from the record, the petitionerwas indulged in transportation
and possession of 1.2 KGs of Ganja and 5.980 Grams of MDMA. The
petitioner has been languishing in the jail since 05.04.2025 onwards, nearly
108 days he has been in the judicial custody.
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Dr.YLR,J`
CrI.P.No.6441 of 2025
Dated 21.07.2025
Keeping into consideration the number of days the petitioner has
been jn judicial custody, the nature of the allegatl-ons levelled against him,
stage of the inves{jgation and his alleged role jn the case, {hjs court is
I I’nCIjned to enlarge the petitioner on ba” with cer{a[-n stringent condl.tjons.
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i 8. In the result, the crlm[naI Petition I-s allowed with the following
conditions:
il The petitl-oner/Accused No.2 shall be enlarged on ba”
subject to he executI’ng a personal bond for a sum of
Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty FiveThousand only), wI-th two
sureties for the like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned
Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class-Gum-Civ” Judge
(JunI-Or Division) court, Mangalagiri.
Ii. The petitioner/Accused No.2 shall appear before the
stati6n House Officer, Mangalagl-ri Rural Police statI’On,
Guntur District, on every saturday in between 10.loo am and
o5:dO pm, tl’ll the conclusllOn Of the TrI-aI.
iji. The petitl’oner/Accused No.2 shall not leave the limits of
the District wl’thout prior permI-SSiOn from the learned Trial
Judge.
iv. The petitioner/Accused No.2 shall not commit or indulge
in sI’milar offences jn futur£., l` _,,
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Dr. YLR, I
CrI.P.No.6441 of 2025
Dated 21.07.2025v. The petitioner/Accused No.2 shall cooperate with the
investigating officer in further investigation of the case and
shall be ava’llable to the investigating officer as and when
/called by him.
sD/-M.SRINIVAS
ASSISTAN GISTRAR
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For
Toll The Spec,al SesslOnS Judge for the Trlal Of the Cases under NDPS
Act,1985 Gum lst Additional Sessions Judge at Guntur
2. The AddltlOnal JudlClal MagIStrate Of Flrst Class-Gum-Clv” Judge
(Junior Division) Court, Mangalagiri.
3. The Superintendent, District Prison at Guntur.
4 The StatlOn House Offlcer, Mangalaglrl Rural PollCe StatlOm Guntur
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5. One CC\\r
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Sri. V.N.S.L.SasidharlV, Advocate [OPUCl
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HIGH COURTDr.YLR,J
DATED:21/07/2025
ORDER
CRLP.No.6441 of 2025
ALLOWED
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