IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

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CRM-M No.71670 of 2025

Date of decision : 24.12.2025

Date of uploading : 24.12.2025

Yuvraj Gambhir ………….Petitioner

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State of Punjab …….Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL

Present: Mr. Vioshal Sharma (Vasudeva), Advocate, for the petitioner

Mr. Baljinder Singh Sra, Addl. AG, Punjab

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.01 dated 1.1.2023 under Section 22 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985,

registered at Police Station Garhshankar, District Hoshiarpur.

2. The gravamen of the FIR in question is that the petitioner was apprehended by the police and 110 grams of intoxicant powder having salt alprazolam allegedly was recovered from the petitioner on 1.1.2023 while he was walking on the kacha rasta along with the canal near Canal

Bridge, Nawanshahar Road, Garhshankar.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that the petitioner is in custody since 1.1.2023. Learned counsel has further argued that the

petitioner has been falsely impl