( 1 ) THIS petition has been filed under Section 438 of the Criminal Procedure Code for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner who apprehended arrest by officers under the respondents, namely, the Commissioner of Central Bureau of Narcotics, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh and the Assistant Commissioner (Customs), Inland Container Depot (ICD), Tughlakabad, New Delhi.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the averments in the petition, the respondents want to implicate the petitioner, Ved Prakash Goel in a case titled as "customs vs. Daya Ram and others" filed in the Court of Ms. I. K. Kochar, Special Judge for NDPS cases, New Delhi. One Sanjeev Kumar Aggarwal (S. K. Aggarwal) who is one of the accused in the above mentioned case had tendered a statement before the officers of the Central Bureau of Narcotics that he had procured Acetic-Anhydride from the petitioner. The said Sanjeev Kumar Aggarwal retracted the said statement on the same day when he was produced before the Magistrate. He categorically stated before the Magistrate that he had neither purchased any chemical from anybody nor sold the same to anybody. The petitioner was in judicial custody in the Central Jail from 23rd April, 1