IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

233 CRM-M-66189-2025 (O&M) Date of decision : 30.01.2026 Pritam Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Saksham Dudeja, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Roshandeep Singh, AAG, Punjab.

MANISHA BATRA, J.(Oral)

1. The instant one is the second petition that has been filed by the petitioner under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in FIR No. 175 dated 13.10.2023, registered under Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station City Khanna, District Khanna, Punjab. The previous petition was dismissed by this Court on

24.07.2025.

2. The petitioner has been booked in the aforesaid FIR and facing trial therein on the allegations that on 13.10.2023, he was apprehended by a police party and recovery of 1700 intoxicating tablets of Lomotil having salts of Diphenoxylate Hydrochloride and Atropine Sulphate was effected from him.

3. It is argued by learned counsel for the petitioner that he has been falsely implicated in this case a