IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-3896-2025 (O&M) Date of decision: 24.01.2025 Kimti Lal ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Punjab ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Sultan Singh Gill, Advocate for the petitioner.

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HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (ORAL)

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) [now Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’)] for grant of anticipatory bail in FIR No.293 dated 07.10.2020 under Sections 18 & 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’), registered at Police Station Kathunangal, District Amritsar (Rural).

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia, contends that the petitioner was not named in the FIR (supra) and his named surfaced only on the basis of disclosure statement of co-accused and after effecting the recovery, the petitioner was apprehended. It is further contended that after his arrest, the petitioner was granted the concession of regular bail by learned Judge, Special Court, Amritsar vide order dated 23.07.2021 (Annexure P-2). The pet