IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-41659-2025 (O&M).

Date of decision: 08.04.2026.

MANGAL SINGH ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ PRESENT Mr. Parminder Singh Sekhon, Sr. Advocate, with Mr. L.S. Sekhon, Advocate, and Ms. Nitika Sharma Sekhon, Advocate, for the petitioner(s).

Ms. Chhavi Sharma, AAG, Haryana assisted by ASI Raj Kumar, P.S. Sadar, Tohana. VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

This is the first petition filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.373 dated 23.11.2024, under Section(s) 21(c) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and Section 109(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, registered at Police Station Sadar Tohana, District Fatehabad.

Learned Senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner(s)

contends that, as per the prosecution case, a police party was on patrolling duty. While passing through Jamalpur Shekhan and upon reaching near Bus Stand of village Aankawali Bus Stand, observed a white colour Ertiga car bearing registration No.HR-27-H-9695 parked on the ro