IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 10.09.2025 Pronounced on: 24.09.2025 INDERJIT SINGH ...PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB …RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. Chandan Singh Rana, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Akshay Kumar, Asst. AG, Punjab.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

143 19.05.2023 STF, Phase-4, 21/21(c)/29 of NDPS Act Mohali (Section 27 of NDPS Act added later on)

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 4 of the bail petition and 7(E) 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 19-05- 2023, based on prior information, the Police seized 500 grams of heroin from the car in which co-accused Inderjit Singh Harpreet Singh @ Bhaila and Harmandeep Singh @ Mani was travelling. The petitioner was able to escape and was arrested lateron. The Investigator claims to have complied with all the statutory requirements of the NDPS Act, 1985, and CrPC,