JUDGMENT

1. The applicant vide the present application implores this Court to exercise its special powers under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [CrPC] read with Section 37 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 [NDPS Act] to grant regular bail in FIR No.221/2020 dated 10.07.2020 under Section(s) 20/25/29, NDPS at PS: Madhu Vihar, Delhi.

2. As per FIR, information was received from a confidential informant [CI], that the applicant and one Imran@Doctor will be handing over a large consignment of Ganja from Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh in Madhu Vihar, Delhi around 12:00 PM on 09.07.2020. The same was communicated to ACP Madhu Vihar, who ordered a raid to intercept the aforesaid consignment.

3. Accordingly, a team was formed and dispatched to the place of occurrence at 11:20 PM which waited for the exchange to happen. At about 12:10 PM, a Silver Swift Dezire [DL-01-CR-0648] stopped and the CI informed that out of the two male occupants in the car, the one in Yellow T-shirt is Mr. Praveen Khatri, the applicant herein and the other one in White shirt is Imran@Doctor. SI Ram Niranjan Pathak knocked on the window-glass but since the occupant(s) denie