ORDER

This application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, BNSS ), seeking regular bail.

2. The applicant is the accused No.9 in Crime No.12/2020 of Ettumanoor Excise Range Office, Kottayam District now pending as S.C. No.56/2024 before the Special Court for NDPS Act Cases, Thodupuzha. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 20 (b)(ii)(C), 25, 27A and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, NDPS Act).

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused Nos.1 and 2 were found in possession of 62.5 kilograms of ganja concealed inside a lorry transporting NCERT textbooks in contravention of the provisions of NDPS Act. As against the applicant, the allegation is that he hatched criminal conspiracy with the other accused in the case for illicit traffic of commercial quantity of ganja and thereby committed the above offences.

4. I have heard Sri.P.Chandy Joseph, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri.K.A.Nousha