(270) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 08.04.2026 GURMEET SINGH ... Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASJIT SINGH BEDI Present: Mr. Harshdeep Singh, Advocate with Mr. Varun Singla, Advocate for Mr. Lupil Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Attar Ahmed, AAG, Punjab.

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JASJIT SINGH BEDI, J.

The prayer in this 2^nd petition under Section 483 BNSS, 2023 is for the grant of regular bail in case bearing FIR No.130 dated 10.08.2021 registered under Sections 21/23/29/61/85 of NDPS Act and Sections 419/420/467/468/471/120-B of IPC at Police Station STF, SAS Nagar Mohali.

2. The brief facts of the case are that secret information was received by the investigating agency that Gurmeet Singh son of Jasbir Singh, resident of Village Narli, District Tarn Taran was indulging in the smuggling of heroin for a long time and had close contacts with Pakistan based smugglers. He had got heroin from Pakistan in huge quantity and supplied the same in various parts of Punjab. He was in touch with Pakistani smugglers and was likely to finalize a deal with them soon. As per the deal, the Pakistani dealers would send a huge con