IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIML.A.

CrMP(M) No.1305 of 2025 Reserved on : 19.06.2025 Decided on: 24.06.2025 Amar Bahadur …Applicant Versus State of Himachal Pradesh …Respondent Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Virender Singh, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?

For the applicant : Mr. Varun Chauhan, Advocate.

For the respondent : Mr. Tejasvi Sharma and Mr. H.S.

Rawat, Additional Advocates General with Ms. Ranjna Patial, Deputy Advocate General, assisted by ASI Avtar Singh, PS Chirgaon, i District Shimla, H.P.

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-Amar Bahadur has sought his release, on bail, during the pendency of the trial, arising out of FIR No.62 of 2024, dated 28.08.2024, registered under Section 18 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act (hereinafter referred to as the ‘NDPS Act’), with Police Station Chirgaon, District Shimla, H.P.

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

3. As per the applicatnt, he has been arrested on 28.08.2024 by