235 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 08.04.2026 Date of Uploading: 08.04.2026 Manpreet Singh …..Petitioner.

Versus State of Punjab .....Respondent.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL *****

Present:- Mr. Jasvir Singh Dhaliwal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG, Punjab.

SUMEET GOEL, J.(Oral)

Present petition has been filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Section 439 Cr.P.C.), for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.193 dated 19.08.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Section 21(C)/61/85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’), at Police Station Sadar Kapurthala, District Kapurthala.

2. The gravamen of the FIR in question is that the petitioner is an accused of being involved in an FIR pertaining to NDPS Act involving alleged recovery of 256 grams of heron, recovered from the petitioner.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has iterated that the petitioner is in custody since 19.08.2025. Learned counsel has further submitted that mandatory provisions of the NDPS Act have not scrupulously been complied with, and th