For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Kumar Rajdeep, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Suresh Prasad Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH KUMAR VERMA ORAL ORDER

5 22-01-2026 Heard Mr. Kumar Rajdeep, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Suresh Prasad Singh, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. Petitioner seeks bail who is in custody since

27.07.2025 in connection Bairgania P.S. Case No. 162 of 2025, F.I.R. dated 27.07.2025 for the offences punishable under Sections 8 (c), 21(b) of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substance Act, 1985.

3. Recovery is of 120 bottles of cough syrup.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has clean antecedent and he has falsely been implicated in the present case. Infact the petitioner is neither the co-owner nor has any role in running Pooja Medical Hall, near which the recovery has been made and no incriminating articles were recovered from the possession of the petitioner. He further submits that there is non-compliance of the mandatory provision of Sections 42 and 50 of the N.D.P.S. Act and it appears that the recovered contraband is less than th