Judgment

Mr. Harsh Bunger, J.

Prayer in the present petition, filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘the Cr.P.C.’), is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.179 dated 28.07.2021, registered under Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’), at Police Station City Nawanshahr, District SBS Nagar.

2. Status report by way of an affidavit of Sh. Davinder Singh, P.P.S., Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nawanshahar Sub Division, District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, on behalf of respondent-State of Punjab, has been filed, which is already on record.

3. Custody certificate dated 22.04.2023 of the petitioner filed by learned State counsel, in the Court has been taken on record vide order dated 24.04.2023.

4. Briefly, the above-said case FIR was registered on the complaint of one Palwinder Singh, ASI, CIA Staff, Nawanshahr, wherein, he has stated that an information was received from Husaan Lal, ASI that he along with the police party had stopped one clean shaven motorcycle rider along with one bag near bypass of Village Sona Maur and since, there was a suspicion regarding some intoxicant objec