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2025 Supreme(HP) 602

IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA
Virender Singh, J
Harshit Sharma – Appellant
Versus
State of Himachal Pradesh – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicant   :Mr.  N.K.  Thakur,  Senior  Advocate with  Mr.  Divya  Raj  Singh  &  Mr. Karanveer Singh, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Mr.  Mohinder  Zharaick,  Additional Advocate  General,  assisted  by  HC Sudesh  Kumar  No.79,  I.O.,  Police Station, Palampur.

JUDGMENT :

(Virender Singh, J.)

Applicant-Harshit Sharma, has filed the present application, under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the 'BNSS'), with a prayer to release him on bail, during the pendency of trial, in case FIR No.46 of 2024, dated 04.04.2024, registered, under Sections 20, 25 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act (hereinafter referred to as the ‘NDPS Act’), with Police Station Palampur, District Kangra, H.P.

2. According to the applicant, he has falsely been arrested, in the present case, on the allegations that the taxi, being driven by him, when, searched by the police party, Charas weighing 1 kilogram 30 grams was recovered.

3. It is the further case of the applicant that no recovery has been effected from him and he is innocent person and earning his livelihood, by plying taxi. He has no knowledge as to what was being carried by the passenger.

4. As per the applicant, he is in custody for the last about one year. Investigation, in the present case, is stated to have been completed.

5. All these facts have been highlighted to show that the custodial interrogation of the applicant is no longer re

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