IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK

BLAPL No.8382 of 2025

Ganeswar Das … Petitioner

Mr. R.C.Maharana, Advocate

-versus-

State of Odisha … Opposite Party

Mr. M.K.Mohanty, Addl. PP

CORAM:

JUSTICE G. SATAPATHY

ORDER(ORAL)

05.01.2026

Order No

05. 1. This matter is taken up through Hybrid

Arrangement (Virtual/Physical Mode).

2. This is the bail application U/S.483 of the BNSS by the petitioner for grant of bail in connection with Choudwar P.S. Case No. 263 of 2023 corresponding to of Special G.R.(Special) Case No. 15 of 2023 pending in the Court of learned 1^st Addl. Sessions Judge, Cuttack for commission of offences punishable U/Ss. 20(b)(ii)(C) of the NDPS Act, on the main allegation of transporting 351Kgs 800Grams of Contraband Ganja in an Innova car bearing Regd. No.

OD-33-G-4757.

3. In the course of hearing Mr. Ramesh Chandra Maharana, learned counsel for the petitioner by producing the surrender certificate of the petitioner submits that the petitioner has not misused the liberty granted to him in the form of interim bail, but the trial is progressing at snail pace and even after more than two years and six months of the custody

of the petitioner, the trial is yet to be concluded and, therefor