IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

223 CRM-M-7836-2025 Date of decision: 03.11.2025 Karan Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE AARADHNA SAWHNEY Present : Mr. Abhaysher Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Gautam Thapar, Sr. DAG, Punjab.

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AARADHNA SAWHNEY, J.(ORAL)

1. By virtue of the present petition under Section 483 BNSS, petitioner, an accused in case bearing FIR No. 50 dated 22.04.2023 registered against him, for commission of offences punishable under Sections 22/29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Act 1985 (Section 25 of NDPS Act added later on) at Police Station Khuian Sarwar, District Fazilka, has prayed for grant of bail.

2. In brief, the case set up against petitioner is that one Sukhchain Singh and Lovepreet Singh were caught red handed while keeping in their illegal possession 88000 intoxicant tablets (Commercial Quantity). Documents on record further reveal that the aforesaid 2 persons were arrested, when a nakka was laid on the basis of secret information received by police team headed by ASI Rattan Lal. After the statutory formalities were complied with, FIR was lodged. During the course