State of Punjab vs Gurjit Singh @ Geetu

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2026 Supreme(SC) 445

SANJAY KAROL, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
State of Punjab – Appellant
Versus
Gurjit Singh @ Geetu – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Arvind Singh Sangwan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aniruddh Singh Shera, Adv. Ms. Vanya Gupta, AOR Ms. Monika Anand, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Singh Sangwan, Adv. Mr. Shivendra Singh, Adv. Ms. Sanjukta Das, Adv.

ORDER :

AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The present appeal calls in question the judgment and order dated 18.02.2026 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in CRM-M No. 72303 of 2025, by which the petition preferred by the respondent under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter, “the BNSS”), seeking regular bail in connection with FIR No. 06 of 2024 dated 10.01.2024 registered at Police Station Khalra, District Tarn Taran, for offences punishable under Sections 21(c) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter, “the NDPS Act”), came to be allowed.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that on 10.01.2024, in the course of a naka operation near Village Veeram in District Tarn Taran, a Mahindra XUV-300 bearing registration No. UP-15-DD-6521 was stopped and searched. The respondent, who was driving the vehicle, and the co-accused Sukhwinder Singh @ Gora, were apprehended on the spot. Upon the search conducted, heroin was recovered from the possession of both the accused, 508 grams from the respondent and 957 grams from the co-accused Sukhwinder Singh, the aggregate being 1.465 kilogr