224 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 03.07.2025 JASRAJ SINGH @ JUGNU ...PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Gaurav Kalsi, Advocate for Mr. H.S. Batth, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Nitesh Sharma, DAG Punjab.

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Harpreet Singh Brar, J. (Oral)

1. This is the first petition filed under Section 483 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No. 198 dated 01.12.2017 registered under Section 22 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (herein- after to be referred to as ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station City Patti, District Tarn Taran.

2. The brief facts of the present case are that it has been alleged in the FIR(supra) that police party were patrolling in the area and they saw that one haircut person was coming from the front side, who upon seeing the police party suddenly got panicked and turned back and started walking hurriedly and took out a polythene bag from the right pocket of his pant and threw it on the ground. He was apprehended on the basis of suspicion and upon checking the pol