IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 10.09.2025 Pronounced on:18.09.2025 BABBU SINGH ...PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB …RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. Parminder Singh Sekhon, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Akshay Kumar, Asst. AG, Punjab.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

38 08.02.2024 City Barnala, 15/25/29 of NDPS Act District Barnala

1. The petitioner incarcerated in the FIR captioned above had come up before this Court under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking regular bail.

2. Per paragraph 14 of the bail petition and para 8 of the status report, the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allegations are taken from the reply filed by the State. On 08-02- 2024, the Police had seized 600 kgs of poppy straw from a truck and a car and petitioner was found sitting on the driver’s seat of the car. The Investigator claims to have complied with all the statutory requirements of the NDPS Act, 1985, and CrPC, 1973.

4. The petitioner's counsel prays for bail by imposing any stringent conditions and contends that further pre-trial incarceration woul