ORDER :

Bail petitioner namely Kallu Devi, who is behind bars since 29.9.2021, has approached this Court in the instant proceedings filed under Section 439 of Cr.PC, for grant of regular bail in case FIR No. 82, dated 10.8.2021, registered at Police Station Banjar, District Kullu, Himachal Pradesh under Sections 20, 25 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (hereinafter, ‘Act’). Respondent-State has filed the status report in terms of order dated 14.3.2022. ASI Shesh Raj, PS. Banjar, has also come present with records. Records perused and returned.

2. Close scrutiny of record/status report reveals that on 10.8.2021, vehicle bearing registration No. HP-01B-0830 being driven by the co-accused Akshay Kumar was stopped by the police party for checking, apprehending that the person sitting next to the driver of the car, may be possessing some contraband. Since occupants of the car got perplexed after having seen police, police deemed it necessary to conduct search of the vehicle as well as of the persons sitting in car and allegedly recovered 1.107 kg of charas from the bag kept under the legs of co-accused Ravinder Kumar in the presence of the independent witnesses.