IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 27.10.2025 Pronounced on : 30.10.2025 Gauri Shankar ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Vikramjeet Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Neeraj Poswal, AAG, Haryana.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in FIR No. 288 dated 23.07.2024, registered under Sections 15-C and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’)

at Police Station City Mandi Dabwali, District Sirsa.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the disposal of the present petition are that on 23.07.2024, a secret information was received that the petitioner and co-accused Satish Kumar, Navpreet Singh, Narender Kumar and Dinesh Kumar were travelling in a Verna car bearing registration number HR-24R-4292 and another car make i-20 bearing registration number DL-8CT- 0615 was following that car. It was informed that the persons travelling in these vehicles were carrying huge quantity of poppy husk and wer