IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA Cr. MP(M) No. 420 of 2020 Decided on : 18.3.2020 Shiv Ram …Petitioner Versus State of H.P.

…Respondent ___________________________________________

Coram Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sureshwar Thakur, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?

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For the petitioner : Mr. Kush Sharma, Advocate.

For the respondent : Mr. Hemant Vaid and Mr.

Narender Guleria, Addl.

AGs with Mr.Vikrant Chandel and Mr. Narender Thakur, Dy. AGs, for the respondent-State.

Sureshwar Thakur, Judge (oral)

The instant petition, is, constituted under Section 438 of the Cr. P.C., where-through the bail-

applicant seeks indulgence, of, pre-arrest bail, in connection with FIR No. 61/18, of, 9.8.2018, constituting therein offences, under, Section 20, 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Act, registered, at, Police Staftion, Kandaghat, District Solan, H.P.

2. A perusal otf the status report, unfolds that the gross weight, of, the contraband, as allegedly recovered from the conscious and exclusive possession, of, principal accused Neeraj Sharma, being less than, commercial quantity thereof, rather, it, falling within, the, inter