M.S. Ratnaparkhi, J.- The order passed by the Sessions Judge, Akola, on 23rd October 1989 quashing the bail granted to the petitioner by the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Akot and remanding the petitioner to the police custody has been challenged in this revision.

2. It is not much disputed that the present petitioner, who is working as an advocate at Akot in Akola District, was apprehended by the Akot Police on 11-9-89 in connection with an offence punishable under Section 21 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The case of the investigating machinery was that they had received some information that the petitioner was keeping with him packets of brown sugar and selling it to other

persons. In pursuance of this information, so received, Mr. R. G. Deshmukh, the P.S.I. attached to the Akot Police Station, took the police party with him and kept in wait on the road leading to Court at about 11 a.m. or so. The petitioner was seen going towards the Hiwarkhed Road in a cycle rickshaw. The rickshaw was accosted and the search of the petitioner was taken in the presence of the panchas. During the search 15 small packets containing 750 miligrams of brown