IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 16^th April, 2026 Dilpreet Singh @ Dil ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Amardeep Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Roshandeep Singh, 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. 20 dated 28.03.2024 registered under Sections 21-C and 29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, ‘NDPS Act’) and Sections 10, 11, 12 of Aircraft Act, 1934 at Police Station Sarai Amanat Khan, District Tarn Taran.

2. As per the allegations, on 28.03.2024, on receipt of written complaint from the office of the Commander, E Coy 71 Battalion/BSF, BOP Naushera Dhalla, District Tarn Taran with regard to the recovery of one Hero Splendor Plus motorcycle, 02 smart phones and 500 grams of heroin from some fields, the police party reached at the spot. It was informed that the suspected persons had managed to flee away from the fields on