JUDGMENT :

Anoop Chitkara, J.

1. The petitioner apprehending arrest for selling 12.71 grams of heroin to Dara Singh, the above-mentioned provisions of Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act), from whose possession the Police had allegedly recovered the heroin, has come up before this Court under Section 438 CrPC seeking anticipatory bail in the FIR captioned above. The petitioner is presently on interim bail granted by this Court.

2. Para 13 of the bail petition and status report mentions the following criminal history:

3. Ld. Counsel for the petitioner contends that the custodial investigation would serve no purpose whatsoever, and the pre-trial incarceration would cause an irreversible injustice to the petiti