JUDGMENT :

1. The present application under Section 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“Cr.P.C.”) is filed seeking regular bail in S.C. No. 7396/2016 titled as “Directorate of Revenue Intelligence v. Paramjit Singh Gulati & Anr.”.

BRIEF FACTS

2. On an intelligence in relation to drug trafficking by concealment in export consignments, an examination was conducted which found eight corrugated boxes in three pallets. A white crystal powder weighing 151.80 kgs., was seized under the NDPS act.

3. Consequent to the recovery, search was conducted at the premises of the alleged syndicate on 19.07.2012 and a statement of the petitioner was recorded under Section 67 of the NDPS act. Various other statements were recorded and the petitioner was arrested on 20.07.2012. Chargesheet has already been filed and the charges were, thereafter, framed on 05.11.2014.

4. The first regular bail application filed before the learned trial court was dismissed by an order dated 08.05.2019. The bail application, subsequently, filed before this Court was also dismissed by an order dated 02.03.2020. The petitioner was, thereafter, stated to have been granted interim bails on number of occasions, and it is subm