Thota Srinivasa Rao v. The State Of A.P

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A. SHANKAR NARAYANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.1009 OF 2017 ORDER:

This Criminal Petition, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, is filed by the petitioners - accused Nos.1 to 3, requesting to relax condition Nos.1 and 2 imposed by the learned Metropolitan Sessions Judge - cum - I-Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam, by the order dated 30.01.2017 in Criminal M.P.No.216 of 2017 in Crime No.6 of 2017 of Golugonda Police Station, Visakhapatnam.

The condition is to the effect that the petitioner/A.1 shall execute personal bond of Rs.1,00,000/- with two sureties who shall each furnish a fixed deposit of Rs.1,00,000/-; and the petitioners/A.2 and A.3 shall execute personal bond of Rs.50,000/- each with two sureties each who shall each furnish a fixed deposit of Rs.50,000/-, drawn in the name of the Court and the same shall be produced to the satisfaction of the Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Narsipatnam.

Sri Sravan Kumar Naidana, learned counsel for the petitioners, would represent that the petitioners alleged to have been found in possession of 30 Kilograms of Ganja, which is not a commercial quantity and, therefore, sought to relax the conditions in its entirety, which request is opposed by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State of Andhra Pradesh.

In a similar situation, earlier, this Court relaxed the condition directing the sureties to furnish fixed deposit of Rs.25,000/- as against Rs.50,000/-, as such, to that extent the said condition is modified directing the sureties to furnish fixed deposit of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only) each instead of Rs.1,00,000/- insofar as petitioner/A.1 is concerned and to furnish fixed deposit of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees twenty five thousand only) instead of Rs.50,000/- insofar as petitoners/A.2 & A3 are concerned.

Accordingly, the Criminal Petition is allowed in part modifying the order impugned to the extent indicated above.

All other conditions remain unaltered.

As a sequel thereto, Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in the Criminal Petition stand closed.

___________________________ A. SHANKAR NARAYANA, J February 7, 2017.

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