IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr. MP(M) No. 520 of 2025 Reserved on: 20.06.2025 Decided on: 27.06.2025 Ram Singh ....Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh f…Respondent Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sushil Ku kreja, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioner: Mr. Yashveer Singh Rathore, Advocate.

For the respondent/NCB: Mr. Ashwani Pathak, Senior Advocate with Mr. Dev Raj, Advocate.

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Sushil Kukreja, Judge The instant bail application has been moved by the petitioner under Section 483 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNSS”) for releasing him on bail, in NCB Crime No. 74/2022, dated 20.10.2022, under Sections 20 & 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (for short “NDPS Act”), registered with NCB, Sub Zone Mandi, District Mandi, H.P.

2. The prosecution story, in brief, is that a team of NCB received a secret information that two persons, namely, Som Nath and Ram Singh (petitioner herein) were involved in

1 Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment?

trafficking of charas. On the basis of said information, the NCB Mandi team reached at Bajau