IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-64460-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 24.03.2026 Sushant Sharma ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. G. S. Bedi, 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 case arising out of FIR No. 76 dated 13.03.2024, registered under Sections 22(b), 22-C and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station Civil Lines, Batala, District Gurdaspur. His previous petition was dismissed as withdrawn.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the disposal of the present petition are that on 13.03.2024, on the basis of a secret information, the petitioner was apprehended by a police party and recovery of 5000 intoxicant tablets containing Tramadol Hydrochloride was effected from his conscious possession. Since he could not produce any valid license or permit to keep in his possession the recovered