Katta Ganesh v. The State Of Telangana

IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF

TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.16905 of 2025 DATE : 23.12.2025 Between:

Sri Katta Ganesh

...Petitioner/Accused

AND The State of Telangana Rep. by the Public Prosecutor, High Court at Hyderabad.

...Respondent

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed before this Court for grant of bail to the Petitioner who is arrayed as accused in FIR No.319 of 2025 of Prohibition & Excise Station, Saroornagar, Rangareddy District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 8(c) r/w 20(b)(ii)(B) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Act, 1985 (for short 'NDPS').

2.

The brief facts of the case are that, on 22.11.2025, the police officials basing on reliable information have conducted inspection and found that the petitioner herein is in possession of 7.75 kgs of dry ganja, which was seized under a proper panchanama. Accordingly, a case was registered against the petitioner for the aforementioned offences. 3.

Heard Sri Duvvuri Surya Narayana, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner as well as Sri D. Arun Kumar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondentState. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is in judicial custody since 23.11.2025 and that he is falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that the material part of the investigation is already completed and there are no other cases pending against the petitioner. Therefore, he prayed the Court to grant bail to the petitioner by allowing this criminal petition. 5.

On the other hand, learned Additional Public Prosecutor opposed the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner stating that the alleged offence is under NDPS Act,

1985, however informed the Court that there are no other cases pending against the petitioner. Therefore, he prayed the Court to dismiss the criminal petition.

6.

In the light of the submissions made by both the learned counsel and upon perusal of the material available on record, it appears that the petitioner has been in judicial custody since 23.11.2025 and the seized contraband is 7.5 kgs of dry ganja, which is an intermediate quantity. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the nature of the allegations, the stage of investigation, this Court finds it appropriate to grant bail to the petitioner/accused, subject to the following conditions:

i.

The petitioner/accused shall execute a personal bond for a sum of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand only), with two sureties for a like sum each to the satisfaction of the learned I Additional District and Sessions Judge at Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar.

ii.

The petitioner/accused shall appear before the concerned SHO at 11:00

a.m., on every Monday for a period of eight (8) week or till filing of charge sheet whichever is earlier, for the purpose of investigation, and thereafter, as and when required.

iii.

The petitioner/accused shall abide by the conditions stipulated in Section 437(3) of Cr.P.C. (presently, Section 480(3) of the BNSS).

7.

Accordingly, the Criminal petition is allowed. Miscellaneous applications, if any pending, shall stand closed.

_______________ K. SUJANA, J Date: 23.12.2025 SRK

THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE K. SUJANA CRIMINAL PETITION No.16905 of 2025 Date:23.12.2025 SRK