The High Court · 2025

Petition under Section 482 of BNSS praying that in the circumstances stated in the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition, the High Court may be pleased to enlarge the Petitioner/Accused No.3 herein on Anticipatory Bail in Crime No. 66 of 2025 dated 03i04/2025 On the File of P.S Nizamabad V Town in the event of arrest. This Petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the Memorandum of Grounds of Criminal Petition and upon. hearing the arguments of Sri T Srujan Kumar Reddy, Advocate for the Petitioner and Sri Syed Yasar Mamockr, Add itional Public Prosecutor on behalf of the Respondent. The Court made the following: ORDER THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO ONN CRIMINALP ETITI o.56 83o f 2o2s ORDER: This Criminal petition is filed under Section 4g2 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2O2 _q, u^r,r<1 oLrnn a, .2023 (for shorl , .BNSS) seeking anticipatory ba to the petitioner/accused No.3 in crime No.65 of 2O2S on the file of the S.H.O., Nizamabad V .I.own police Station for the offen<:es under Secrions 318(4), 316(2),61(2), 111 r/w. Section 3(S) of the Bharariya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS). 2. 'lhe case of prosecution, in brief is that on O3.O4 .2025 at 21 00 hours S I of police repeived reliable information that oNLINE CRICKET BETTING is taking place at Bharathi Rani Colony, Nizamabad and that upon the said inlormation S.I of police along with the staff had rushed [o the house of Accused No.1 and found four persons playing online cricket betting on their phones. It is alleged that about two years ago, Accused No.1 got acquainted with Shakee(Ag of Auto Nagar and looking to earn monev through cricket betting and asked Ag to give details of persons in'olved in cricket betting. It is also alleged that A8 introduced A2(Sachin, R/o. Dharmabad) to Al. it is further alleged that Al asked ,{2 to provide the details related to online cricket betting and ,{2 allegedly told the Al that he is acting as a master in cricket betting and therc is another person who is acting as a super master and allegedly (' 2 told him that they would create and provide user ID, Password and advised Al to act as an agent under his control as such Al can create and provide Uscr IDs, Passwords to cach of thc player in online cricket betting and players can deposit the amount but can't withdraw the amount. It is further allegcd that the Users (Victims / Innocent People) would have to deposit the amount in the User IDs and can see the amount in the IDs to start the playing in thc online sites but if the users win the game, the users can't have a chance to withdraw the amount but only Accused No.I can have the chance to withdraw the amount and allcgcdly created. User ID (lmroz2ll Password (Mmt'im 1234) to Al and allegedly explained about some sites i.e,,1). Diceexch.com, 2). Allpanelexch.com, 3). 11xgame, 4)'. Gbet5673.com, 5). Pari-matehin.com, 6). WellbwettT.com, 71. Vip777.com, 8). App.bharathmatka.com and given two sites ie, 1); Diceexch.com, 2). Allpanelexch.com to act as an agent and told him that to identify thc innocent people and announce about the crickel betting and manage the innocent pdople that if they play online cricket betting, they can gain huge amount by deceiving someone and organised online cricket betting Petitioner/Accused No. I wrth 7o/o Commission. It is further alleged that the Accused No.l agreed and with an intention and criminal conspiracy, saying deceitful words to the innocent people, Accused No. 1 identihed around 2OO people and allegedly created user IDs, Passwords to them in the above two sites lor playing the online 3 cricket betting. It is alleged that if they won the game, the Accused No.1 would withdraw the amount and given the same to the master and also transacted the amount in the means of online or in other hand. It is arleged that every day at evening hours. Ar used to inform about the gained amount to ,q2 and transacted the amount through Phone pay or bank and take his proht from it. It is alleged that whenever they win huge amount, to over the transaction limit, the Accused No.1 managed the transactions to A2 with the help of A7- Ramesh who is working in GJ Orange travel. It is further alleged that from the past tw-o years Accused No. 1 created IDs in the sites and sent the IDs,to the players who play the online cricket betting and in the same order, since the IpL is currenfly running, the Petitioner/Accused No. I created IDs to Srikanth, Minaj, Rahul Mukeem, Venkat, Chippa, Sabei, Affu, Laddu and some other hundred members and provided the same to play the online cricket betting in these sites ie, Iike ball to ball, ball to 4, ball to 6, bal to wicket and in another different types arrd encouraged them to play the game. It is alleged that while the players were betting on these sites, the amount which they won in betting was credited to his bank account which was linked his mobile number. It is alleged that the Petitioner/Accused No. 1 mad,e 26g transactions through the above UPI IDs in the IpL Game which is currently running and made transacted rupees of 16, 11,211/_rupees as well as since some days the petitioner/Accused No. t managed and made so L 4 many thousands of transactions in online cricket betting' Thereafter, the Accused No.l explained about the online cricket betting to petitioner/ Accused No.3-(Shaik Najeeb) and also created to him User ID, Password with the help of A2 and told him that act as an agent. Later, Accused No. I disclosed the same to his brothers namely Accused No.4 Shaik Nadeem, Accused No 5 Shaik Junaid, Accused No.6 - Shaik Rehan about the exchanges of UPI transactions about online cricket betting' Basing on the confession of accused Nos. 1 , 2 to 8 are named in this case lt is alleged that an amount of Rs'2O,OOO/- cell phone and bank passbook is seized from accused No.1, it is alleged that an amount of Rs.1O,O0O/- two credit cards and cell phones are recovered from accused No.4, it is further alleged that from accused No'5' Rs.1O,OOO/- and a cell phone is recovered and it is alleged that from accused No.6, Rs.10,0OOl-, a cell phone and bank passbook are seized.

3. q Heard Sri T. Srujan Kumar Reddy, Ieamed counsel for the petitioner/ accused No.3 and Mr.Syed Yasar Mamoon' learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent-State' Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner 4. has not committed any offence and falsely implicated in the present crime just because he is brother of accused Nos'1, 4, 5 and 6 and also there are no specilic allegations against the petitioner' a 5 He further submits that petitioner is wrongly implicated for the offence under Section 111 of BNS and also contended that imprisonment for other offences leveled against the petitioner are below seven years. It is further contended that u'hole allegation leveled against the petitioner that he created an user ID and password with the help of accused No.2 and asked him to act as an agent and there are no allegations and except that there are no other allegations. It is further.contended that the other accused were already arrested and the entire investigation is completed except filing of the charge sheet. It is further contended that petitioner is not having any'criminal antecedents, he is ready and willing to cooperate with the investigation and also ready to abide by the conditions, which are going to be imposed by this Court. Hence, the petitioner may be enlarged on anticipatory bail.

5. Per contra, learned Additional Public prosecutor submitted that the petitioner/ accused No.3 along with other accused has committed a grave offence and also contended that there are specihc allegations leveled against the petitioner to attract the ingredients under Section I 1 1 of BNS. He further contended that the investigation is under progress and accused Nos.2, 7 and g were absconding, accused Nos. l, 4 to 6 were arrested on 04 .O2.2O25. Therefore, if the petitioner tp granted bail, there is I ( ( 6 every chance to influence the witnesses and to interfere with the a invesligation. Hence, the petitioner is not entitled for grant of bail. 7 . Having considered the rival submissions made by both the parties and after perusal of the material available on record, it reveals that petitioner along with other accused involved in the cricket betting activity and specihc allegations leveled against the petitioner attract as mentioned supra. As per learned Additional Public Prosecutor, the investigation is under progress and no other accused were not released on bail. Taking into considerhtion of the gravily of the offence, this 8 Court is not incline d to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner/accused No.3. g. Accordingly, this Criminal Petition is dismissed As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous applications, if any, pending in this petition stand closed. { I t To, SO'.A.SREENIVASA REDDY ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER 1 2 2 4 q The Court of the Sessions Judge, Nizamabad The Station House Officer, Nizamabad V Town Police Station, Nizamabad Two CCs to the Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad [OUT] One CC to Sri T Srujan Kumar Reddy, Advocate [OPUC] Two CD Copies / N BK/PSL ,,q i(. 29JUt 2E $\r z C) . joli a..r: - Ii.' )'t * HIGH COURT DATED: 0210512025 a ORDER CRLP.No.5683 ot 2025 t DISMISSING OF THE CRIMINAL PETITION t< /t g ,lz ,45