ORDER :

1. By way of instant petition filed under S. 439 Cr.P.C. prayer has been made on behalf of bail petitioner-Parma Ram, for grant of regular bail in FIR No. 161, dated 2.9.2021, under Ss. 20, 25 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (hereinafter, ‘Act’) registered at Police Station Sadar, District Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.

2. Pursuant to orders dated 23.12.2021 and 5.1.2022, respondent-State has filed status report. ASI Ashok Kumar has come present with record. Record perused and returned.

3. In nutshell, case of the prosecution is that on 2.9.2021, at 9.30 am, police after having received a secret information laid Naka at near HPMC Juice Shop at Sungal, District Bilaspur and stopped a Maruti Alto 800 bearing Registration No. HP-01K-7078 being driven by present bail petitioner and another vehicle i.e. Tempo Trax bearing registration No. HP-76-0647 being driven by persons namely Vir Chand and allegedly recovered 4.682 kg of Charas and currency of Rs. 4,29,500/- from the vehicle bearing Registration No. HP-76-0647. At the time of recovery of contraband and currency, person namely Devender was also sitting in vehicle bearing Registration No. HP-76-0647, bei