JUDGMENT :

Heard Mr. A. Rahman, learned counsel for the accused-petitioner and Ms. P. Das, learned counsel for the respondent Narcotics Control Bureau [NCB].

2. By this application under Section 439, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [‘CrPC’ or ‘the Code’, for short], the accused-petitioner viz. Satyendar Ray has sought for his release on bail in connection with N.D.P.S. Case no. 36/2020, arising out of NCB Crime Case no. 18/2019, presently pending before the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 5, Kamrup [Metro], Guwahati [‘the Special Court’, for short], registered under Sections 8[c]/Section 20[b][ii][C] and Section 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances [NDPS] Act, 1985. It may be mentioned that the petitioner’s earlier bail application, B.A. no. 945/2021, was rejected by an order dated 24.06.2021.

3. The NCB Crime Case no. 18/2019 came to be registered in the following fact situations and the prosecution case, in brief, is as under :-

3.1. A specific information at about 15-00 hours on 07.12.2019 was received by the office of the Narcotics Control Bureau [NCB], Zonal Office, Guwahati to the effect that a huge quantity of Ganja was being transported in a truc