JUDGMENT :

Ranjan Sharma, J.

Bail petitioner [Sonu], being in custody since 20.11.2023 has come up before this Court, seeking regular bail, under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , (referred to as BNSS ) originating from FIR No. 152 of 2023 dated 20.11.2023, registered at Police Station Gagret, District Una, [H.P.], under Section 21, 25 , 61 and 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (referred to as the NDPS Act).

FACTUAL MATRIX

2. Case set up by Learned Senior Counsel, is that on 20.11.2023, while the police party was on patrolling in Banne Di Hatti area on the main road to Gagret near Industrial Area, Ambota, they received a secret information at 3:50 pm, that a person sitting on the driver seat in vehicle was carrying huge quantity of contraband, beneath the driver’s seat. On reaching, the spot at about 5:15 pm, the police, on disclosure of their identity, found the bail petitioner [Sonu] to be sitting on the driver’s seat. Thereafter, vehicle was searched and a polythene bag was found, containing two other plastic bags, one containing red coloured plastic polythene containing yellowish wet material and in the other transparent plastic envelope