IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 03.02.2025 Pronounced on: 07.02.2025 Varinder Singh ...Pe(cid:14)(cid:14)oner Versus State of Punjab …Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. Gaurav Kalsi, Advocate for the pe(cid:14)(cid:14)oner.

Mr. Rubal Pawar, A.A.G. Punjab.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Sta0on Sec0on

197 07.09.2023 Sadar Kharar, District SAS 22 of NDPS Act Nagar (Mohali)

1. The pe(cid:14)(cid:14)oner incarcerated in the FIR cap(cid:14)oned above had come up before this Court under Sec(cid:14)on 483 of Bhara(cid:14)ya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking regular bail.

2. In paragraph 10 of the bail pe(cid:14)(cid:14)on, the accused declares that he has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allega(cid:14)ons are taken from the status report filed by the State. On 07.09.2023, based on a chance recovery, the Police recovered 15000 tablets of Lomo(cid:14)l from the possession of the pe(cid:14)(cid:14)oner and 5100 tablets from the possession of co-accused Sunny. The Inves(cid:14)gator claims to have complied with all the statutory requirements of the NDPS Act, 1985, and BNSS, 2023.

4. The pe(cid:14)(cid