JUDGMENT (ORAL)

Avneesh Jhingan, J.—Petitioner is seeking regular bail in case of FIR No.144 dated 8.11.2019, under Section 22 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, (for short ‘the Act’) registered at Police Station Jhabal, District Tarn Taran.

2. As per the case set up, on 8.11.2019 police received a secret information that Jaswinder Singh @ Jass (petitioner) is engaged in selling intoxicant tablets. He is bringing Narcotics from Amritsar on a motor cycle for selling it in village Jhabhal. Finding the information reliable, the information was forwarded to CPSDM, Tarn Taran, who reached the spot. Nakabandi was set up, a person was seen coming on a Pulsar motor cycle and he had put a plastic bag between the petrol tank of motor cycle and his thigh. On signal from police, he tried to turn back the motor cycle but was caught. He disclosed his name as Jaswinder Singh. Sukhdev Singh son of Mukhtiar Singh was joined as a public witness. 50,000 tablets containing Tramadol salt were recovered from the petitioner.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody since 8th November, 2019, no prosecution witness has been examined. He furth