ORDER :

The facts in brief are that on 30.7.2020, the Intelligence Officer of Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB), the respondent herein, received information that the Foreign Post Office, Bengaluru, had received a parcel which was addressed to one Kartik Pramod. The information given to the Intelligence Officer was that the parcel contained MDMA tablets. The officers of the NCB went to the Post Office and seized the parcel by writing a panchanama on 30.7.2020. When they opened the parcel, they found it containing 142 grams of MDMA. They tracked the addressee and came to know that the petitioner was the real receiver of the parcel. The petitioner is a student of engineering at NITTE, Karkala. He was not available as the college had been closed due to Covid-19. On 8.8.2020, the petitioner came to college to attend the examination which was scheduled to commence from 16.8.2020. The NCB officers questioned the petitioner about the parcel and he denied his knowledge about it. Thereafter, the NCB officers interrogated accused 2 to 4. Since they found inconsistency in their statements, they subjected the petitioner again for interrogation on 23.9.2020. Thereafter he was arrested and produced be