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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.1 in Crime No.666/2025 of Thadiyittaparamba Police Station, Ernakulam District. The offences alleged are punishable under Sections 20(b)(ii)(C) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 .

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 07.09.2025 at 07:05 a.m., the accused Nos.1 to 3, with the intention of making profit, smuggled 91.00 kgs of dry ganja in plastic cover inside the car bearing registration No.WB- 57-K-6776 travelled from Pookkattupady to Chembaraki and thereby committed the above said offences.

4. I have heard Sri. Sam Isaac Pothiyil, the learned counsel for the applicant and Sri. M.C.Ashi, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor. Perused the case diary.

5. The learned counsel appearing for the applicant submitted that the requirement of informing the arrested person of the grounds of arrest is mandatory under Article 22(1) of the Constitution of India and Section 47 of the BNSS and inasmuch as the applicant was not furnished with the grounds of arrest, his arrest was ill