IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-48456-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 01.09.2025 Harpreet @ Ashu ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Simranjit Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Ramta Chowdhary, DAG, Punjab.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. The instant one is the second petition that has been filed by the petitioner under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of anticipatory bail to him in case arising out of FIR No. 34 dated 14.02.2025 registered under Sections 21, 29 and 31 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station Rama Mandi, District Police Commissionerate Jalandhar. The first petition, bearing CRM-M-17285-2025, was dismissed by this Court, vide order dated 28.03.2025.

2. The petitioner has been booked in this case on the basis of the disclosure statement suffered by co-accused Raj Pal @ Palli, who was apprehended by the police party on 14.02.2025 and from whom, firstly recovery of 52 grams of heroin and thereafter another recovery of 206 grams of heroin was effected. T