IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 2^nd April, 2026 Gurpreet Singh @ Gopi ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Rishu Mahajan, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of regular bail in case bearing FIR No. 04 dated 06.01.2024 registered under Sections 21(c), 27-A, 25 and 29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, ‘NDPS Act’) at Police Station Jandiala, District Amritsar.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the allegations that the present petitioner had been declared a proclaimed offender in a case bearing FIR No. 37 dated 18.02.2019 registered under Section 22 of NDPS Act at Police Station Tarsika. On 06.01.2024, a police party conducted raid at his house for the purpose of apprehending him. Navdeep Singh, brother-in-

law of the petitioner, had met there and disclosed that the petitioner mostly used to live in the house of his