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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANAAT CHANDIGARH Krishan ….Petitioner versus State of Haryana ….Respondent Date of Decision: March 24, 2026 Date of Uploading: March 24, 2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present:- Mr. Neeraj Chauhan, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Priyanka Sadar Thakur, Senior DAG Haryana.

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

Present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) (earlier Section 438 Cr. P.C.) for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner, in case bearing FIR No.281 dated 12.07.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 22(C), 29, 61 of the NDPS Act, 1985, at Police Station City Palwal, District Palwal, Haryana.

2. The gravamen of the FIR in question is that the petitioner is an accused of being involved in an FIR pertaining to NDPS Act involved alleged recovery of 15 injections of Buprenorphine 2 ML each, 15 injections of Diazepam 2ML each and 06 injections of Avil from co-accused, namely, Harender. Said co-accused, in his disclosure, named co-accused, namely Udaybhan to be a person from whom Harender had purchased the recovered injections. Further,