IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-63764-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 25.03.2026 Harpreet Singh @ Jagga ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Rhythem Bajaj, 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 for grant of regular bail to him in case bearing FIR No. 169 dated 05.12.2024, registered under Sections 15 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station Haibowal, District Police Commissionerate Ludhiana. His previous petition was dismissed as withdrawn on 21.08.2025.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the disposal of the present petition are that on 05.12.2024, the petitioner along with co-accused Jatinder @ Pawan and Mandeep Singh @ Kalu, while coming on a scooter, was apprehended by a police party and recovery of 50 kgs. 500 grams of poppy husk was effected from a bag, which they had thrown on seeing the police party. Since they