JUDGMENT :

(Ranjan Sharma, J.)

Bail petitioner [Prikshit Dhani], being in custody 05.04.2024, has come up before this Court, seeking regular bail, under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita [hereinafter referred to as BNSS] origination from FIR No.21 of 2024, dated 14.2.2024, under Sections 21 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act [in short the NDPS Act] registered at Police Station Theog, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

FACTUAL MATRIX

2. Case as set by Mr. Ajay Kochhar, Learned Senior Counsel is that petitioner has been falsely implicated and there is no evidence to connect the petitioner with the accusation and the petitioner is a young man belonging to a respectable family.

2(i). It is averred that though the alleged recovery was made from petitioner - Prikshit Dhani, weighing 12.06 grams, which is an Intermediate Quantity.

2(ii). Bail petitioner has undertaken that he shall not cause any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case with the further undertaking that he shall abide by all the terms and conditions as may be imposed by this Court. It is averred that the bail petitioner has filed an application fo