268 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-61445-2025 Date of decision : 10.11.2025 Gurwinder Singh @ Geja .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab ..... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Damanjit Singh Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Raj Karan Singh, A.A.G., Punjab.

RAJESH BHARDWAJ , J. (Oral)

1. Present petition has been filed for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.71 dated 18.06.2024, under Section 22 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Section 29 of NDPS Act, added lateron), registered at Police Station Bhogpur, District Jalandhar.

2. Succinctly the facts of the case are that on 18.06.2024, the police party while on patrolling, saw a person on the street of the village. On seeing the police, he got perplexed and threw a black coloured polythene packet on the ground. On suspicion, he was apprehended and on asking, he disclosed his name to be Gurwinder Singh @ Geja (Petitioner). He was suspected to be carrying some contraband in the polythene packet thrown by him. The same was searched and on conducting the search, 100 loose intoxicating tablets were recovered. He failed to produc