IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

Kabal Singh ....Petitioner

V/s

State of Punjab

....Respondent

Date of decision: 24.12.2025

Date of Uploading : 24.12.2025

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL

Present: Mr. Simranjeet Singh Sarwara, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG Punjab.

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral)

1. Present petition has been filed on behalf of the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory/pre-arrest bail under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘BNSS’) in FIR No.133 dated 12.12.2025 registered for offences punishable under Section 18 of the NDPS Act at Police Station Sadar Rajpura, District

Patiala.

2. The prosecution case, as emerging from the record, is that on 12.12.2025, the police party of Special Cell, Rajpura, while on routine patrolling duty near Rajpura – Sirhind Road at village Uplaheri, received specific and credible secret information that the co-accused Davinder Singh was transporting a heavy quantity of opium in Canter bearing registration No. PB-10-FV-4197. Acting promptly on the said information and after reducing the same into writing and forwarding it to the superior officers in