ORDER

Jagdish Singh Khehar, J.—The factual position, as it emerges from the first information report is, that the Station House Officer of Police Station Shahar, Panipat, (who was holding the rank of Inspector), in the company of Bhim Singh Gill, Assistant Excise and Taxation Officer, Panipat, Constable Devendra Singh and Brajpal, while on patrol duty in Government Jeep, bearing Registration No. HR-6C-973, being driven by Jaisingh, were in the area of Sukhdev Nagar, during the course of investigation in Case No. 275 of 1999, under Sections 457/380 of the Indian Penal Code. He received a secret information, that the accused-appellant before this Court, namely, Darshan Singh s/o Gopal Das Khatri, a resident of House No. 361/3, Panipat, was carrying on the business of selling charas, opium and smack, to small children of the locality, and was responsible for the said children falling in bad habits. The secret informant, allegedly disclosed to the Station House Officer of Police Station Shahar, Panipat, that if a raid was promptly conducted, the accused-appellant Darshan Singh, could be apprehended in possession of charas, opium and smack.

2. As per the first information report, on the