IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-65192-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 27.02.2026 Sonu @ Sonu Kalra ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Divij Datt, Advocate and Ms. Brea Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Neeraj Poswal, AAG, Haryana.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in FIR No. 157 dated 14.06.2025, registered under Sections 22(c) and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’)

at Police Station Civil Line, Sonipat, District Sonipat.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the disposal of the present petition are that on 14.06.2025, on the basis of a secret information, the petitioner was apprehended by a police party and recovery of 600 intoxicant tablets containing Tramadol Hydrochloride weighing 289.2 grams and 100 injections of 02 ml each containing same drug was effected from him. Since he could not produce any valid license or permit to keep in his possession the recovered drugs, he was formal