IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA Cr.MP(M) No.1553 of 2025 Reserved on:- 11.07.2025 Date of Decision: 17.07.2025 Hem Raj @ Bablu …Applicant Versus State of H.P. …..Respondent Coram:

The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Virender Singh, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?

For the applicant : Mr. Mohar Singh, Advocate.

For the respondent : Mr. Anup Rattan, Advocate General with Mr. Tejasvi Sharma, Additional Advocate General with Mr. Rohit Sharma, Deputy Advocate General.

Virender Singh, Judge By way of the present application, filed under Section

483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as ‘BNSS’), applicant-Hem Raj alias Bablu has sought his release, on bail, during the pendency of the trial, arising out of FIR No.50 of 2025, dated 25.04.2025, registered under Sections 21 & 29 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act (hereinafter referred to as the ‘NDPS Act’), with Police Station, Padhar, District Mandi H.P.

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

2. According to the applicant, he is innocent person and has falsely been implicated, at the instance of the police, in this case.

3. It is the case of the applicant,