Amandeep Singh vs State Of U.T. Chandigarh

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2024 Supreme(P&H) 1905

PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH
JASJIT SINGH BEDI
Amandeep Singh – Appellant
Versus
State Of U.T. Chandigarh – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. Manjinder Singh Saini, Advocate
For the Respondent:Mr. Manish Bansal, PP, U.T., Chandigarh with Mr. Navjit Singh, Advocate

JUDGMENT :

Jasjit Singh Bedi, J.

This 2nd petition under Section 439 Cr.PC is for the grant of regular bail in case FIR No.71 dated 14.10.2022 under Section 21 of the NDPS Act (Section 29 of the NDPS Act added later on) at Police Station I.T. Park, Chandigarh.

2. The brief facts of the case are that one Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukha son of Om Dutt came to be apprehended with 300 grams of heroin, note book and Rs.50,200/- alleged to be drug money.

During the course of investigation, he disclosed that he was working as a drug dealer and used to purchase heroin from Amandeep Singh (petitioner) son of Sadhu Singh on a lesser rate and would sell it further to drug addicts on a higher rate. In order to purchase heroin from Amandeep Singh, he used to deposit money in the bank account of the mother of Amandeep Singh being operated by Amandeep Singh himself.

The investigation revealed that a sum of Rs.4,81,000/- had been deposited on different dates between 30.09.2022 and 13.10.2022 in the SBI Bank account of the mother of Amandeep Singh.

Thereafter, Amandeep Singh (petitioner) came to be nominated as an accused and Section 29 of the NDPS Act was added in the present case.

3. The learned counsel for th