IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 01.10.2025 Pronounced on: 28.10.2025 Satpal Singh ...Petitioner Versus Union of India, Narcotics Control Bureau, Zonal Unit, Amritsar …Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. Rishu Mahajan, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Rajiv Sharma (Hissarwale), Special Public Prosecutor, NCB with Mr. Vinayak Atre, Advocate and Ms. Indu Bala Sharma, Advocate for the respondent-NCB.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

NCB Crime Dated Police Station Sections No.

6 28.12.2023 NCB Zonal Unit, 8, 21, 23, 25, 27A, 29 & 60 of Amritsar NDPS Act

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

2. Per paragraph 14A of the bail petition and the reply/custody certificate, the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allegations are taken from the reply filed by the NCB, the relevant portion of which reads as follows:

“2. That the brief facts of the case are that on 28.12.2023 at about 1115 Hrs. an information was received from Inspector Sanjay Singh Reg. No. 123503868 Offg. Coy Comma