IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

203 Date of decision: 05.02.2026 Daler Singh ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Punjab ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Veneet Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Roshandeep Singh, AAG, Punjab, for the respondent-State.

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MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioner under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking anticipatory bail in the FIR mentioned below:-

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

162 02.07.2024 Gharinda, District 21 and 29 of Narcotic Amritsar Rural Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) and 25 and 27 of Arms Act, 1959

2. As per the allegations, on 02.07.2024, on receipt of a secret information to the effect that the petitioner along with co-accused Jatin Singh and Sajjan was involved in the business of sale of contraband and could be apprehended with huge quantity of heroin, a raiding party was formed which reached at the informed place where three persons were seen while holding polythene bags in their hand. On seeing the police officials, two of them managed to flee after