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AMIT BANSAL
Somdutt Singh @ Shivam – Appellant
Versus
Narcotics Control Bureau – Respondent
JUDGMENT
1. The present application has been filed seeking grant of regular bail in Crime No. VIII/25/DZU/2019 under Sections 8/22(c)/23/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act). The applicant has been in judicial custody since 8th April, 2021.
2. The brief facts of the case, as set up by the prosecution are as follows:
2.1 On 6th July, 2019, on receipt of information, the Narcotics Control Bureau (hereinafter "NCB") Team reached DTDC Express Limited Courier Company, New Delhi, where one parcel was found in the name of one Mr. Sudhir Shrivastava, Lucknow to one Mr. Amar Shrivastava, Lynchemburg, USA, which was opened and was found containing, inter alia, 500 strips of 10 tablets each of Alprazolam. Therefore, a total of 5000 tablets of Alprazolam were found.
2.2 Out of the recovered tablets, one strip of 10 tablets was opened and upon weighing the tablets, the weight of 10 tablets was found to be 2 grams. Therefore, total weight of the 5000 tablets of Alprazolam was ascertained to be 1 kg, which constitutes commercial quantity (commercial quantity of Alprazolam being 100 grams).
2.3 Upon investigation from the manufacturer of the medicines, it was found
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