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

218 CRM-M-64585-2025 (O&M) Date of decision : 18.02.2026 Pardeep Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Aajeshwar Singh Grewal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, 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, for grant of regular bail to him in FIR No. 23 dated 18.03.2024, registered under Sections 22(c), 27 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station Balianwali, Bathinda. The previous petition was dismissed by this Court on 22.08.2025.

2. The petitioner has been booked in the aforesaid FIR and facing trial therein on the allegations that on 18.03.2024, he was apprehended by a police party and recovery of 3200 intoxicating tablets of Tramadol, which fell under commercial quantity, was effected from him.

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