216 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 07.07.2025 Hardeep Kumar @ Deepa ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ Present: Mr. Mitul Singh Rana, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Simran Goria, AAG, Punjab.

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RAJESH BHARDWAJ , J. (ORAL)

1. Petitioner has approached this Court by way of present petition praying for granting regular bail in case FIR No.02 dated 12.01.2025 under Sections 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Section 29 of the NDPS Act was added later on) registered at Police Station Mehtiana, District Hoshiarpur (Annexure P-1).

2. Succinctly, facts of the case are that on 12.01.2025, while the police party was on patrolling, spotted two persons carrying polythene bags. On seeing the police party, they dropped the polythene bags. On suspicion, both of them were stopped and on asking, they disclosed their names as Hardeep Singh @ Deepa (petitioner) and Narinder Singh @ Ninda. They were suspected to carry some contraband in the bags, thus search of the polythene bags was carried out. The bag carried out by Hardeep Singh @ Deepa (petitioner) was found to be contai