2024:BHC-AS:10239 3234-2022-BA=.doc Uday S. Jagtap IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO. 3234 OF 2022 Chetan Hariraji Purohit .. Applicant Vs.

The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent .....

Mr. Mithilesh Mishra a/w Mr. Hansraj Solanki i/b Ganesh Gupta, for the applicant Ms. Anamika Malhotra, APP for the respondent – State …..

CORAM : PRITHVIRAJ K. CHAVAN, J.

CLOSED ON : 22nd FEBRUARY, 2024. PRONOUNCED ON : 28th FEBRUARY, 2024.

P.C.

1. By this application, the applicant who is one of the three accused has prayed for his release on bail in connection with an FIR registered with Chakan Police Station, Pune vide C.R. No. 49 of 2022 for the offences punishable under Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(C), 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short “NDPS Act”) for allegedly found in possession of commercial quantity of Ganja during a chance raid on 10.01.2022 at about 15.30 hours.

2. Briefly stated, it is the case of the prosecution that under the leadership of Police Inspector Satish Pawar, the police personnel were on usual patrolling duty in a Government Vehicle No. MH- 14JM-6261 along with other few private