IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

232 CRM-M-12422-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 16.05.2025 Bablu ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Angrez Singh Dhindsa, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, AAG, Punjab.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No. 97 dated 28.10.2023, registered under Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station Ghagga, District Patiala.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the disposal of the present petition are that on 28.10.2023, the petitioner along with co-accused Parvinder Singh and Najar Singh, while coming on a motorcycle bearing registration number CH-01-AS-4468, was apprehended by the police party and recovery of 1520 loose intoxicating tablets (Tramadol Hydrochloride) was effected from a polythene bag, which the petitioner had thrown on the ground on seeing the police party. Since they could not produce any permit or license to k