Pankaj vs State Of Punjab - 2022 Supreme(P&H) 291

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2022 Supreme(P&H) 291

JASJIT SINGH BEDI
Pankaj – Appellant
Versus
State Of Punjab – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Mr. Parminder Singh Sekhon, Advocate, for the Appellant; Mr. Kirat Singh Sidhu, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, for the Respondent

JUDGMENT

Jasjit Singh Bedi, J. - The Prayer in this petition under Section 439 Cr.PC is for the grant of regular bail in case FIR No.280 dated 08.11.2020 under Sections 22, 25, 27-A and 29 of NDPS Act registered at Police Station City Sunam, District Sangrur.

2. The brief facts of the case are that when the police party was present at ITI Chowk, Sunam at about 10.05 pm a secret informer informed ASI Kashmir Singh that the petitioner-accused-Pankaj was habitual of selling intoxicating tablets and on that day also he had kept the tablets in his white colour Activa Scooter bearing number PB-07-BJ-4106 and was going to sell the same to his customers on the side of drain bridge situated at Bathinda road, Sunam and if a check post was set up he could be apprehended along with the intoxicating tablets and scooter. Since the information was said to be reliable, therefore, at 11.00 pm a ruqa was sent to the police station concerned i.e. P.S. City Sunam for registering the FIR against the petitioner. On the basis of ruqa the present FIR No. 280 dated 08.11.2020 under Sections 22, 25, 27-A and 29 of NDPS Act came to be registered against the accused petitioner at P.S. City, Sunam, Sangrur.

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