IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 02.09.2025 Pronounced on: 24.09.2025 BALWINDER SINGH ...PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB …RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. Ashok Giri, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Pooja Nayar Sharma, DAG, Punjab.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

31 01.04.2025 Lohian, District 15 of NDPS Act, 1985 Jalandhar Rural

1. The petitioner apprehending arrest in the FIR captioned above has come up before this Court under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking anticipatory bail.

2. Per paragraph 14 of the bail petition and para 9 of the status report dated

17.05.2025, the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allegations are taken from the reply filed by the State. On 01.04.2025, based on secret information received by SI Labh Singh regarding the alleged involvement of the petitioner in the sale of poppy husk, a police party conducted a raid at the residential premises of the petitioner. It is alleged that the petitioner managed to escape from the spot at the time of the raid. During the search of the premises, the police officials c