JUDGMENT :

KRISHAN PAHAL, J.

1. Heard Mr. Pal Singh Yadav, learned counsel for the applicants and Mr. Digvijay Nath Dubey, learned counsel for the DRI and also perused the material placed on record.

2. Since the above three bail applications of the accused-applicants pertain to common recovery, therefore, I am deciding all these applications by a common judgment.

3. By means of the present applications, the applicant, Chandra Shekhar Prasad Sah (in C.M.B.A. No. 4961 of 2019), Baijnath Prasad Sah Kanoo (in C.M.B.A. No. 4952 of 2019) and Krishna Kumar (in C.M.B.A. No. 4934 of 2019) seek bail in Complaint Case No. 01 of 2017, under Sections 8(c)/20(b)(iii)(c)/25 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Police Station-D.R.I. Lucknow, District-Lucknow, during the pendency of trial.

4. Brief facts of the case, in a nutshell, are that the Deputy Director, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Lucknow received an information from Patna on 6.2.2017 that one Santro car bearing No. PB-23J-4874 had gone to Kathmandu, Nepal via Raxaul for taking a huge quantity of contraband i.e. charas on 3.2.2017 at 05:00 AM and is now returning via Gorakhpur-Lucknow and is bound to Haryana. A team was co