Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 439 Cr.P.C.

is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.62 dated 26.03.2024, registered under Sections 22 and 29 NDPS Act, at Police Station Sultanpur Lodhi, District Kapurthala.

2. Learned counsel contends that the petitioner has been in custody for the last 1 year and about 11 months. As per the allegations, commercial quantity of contraband was recovered from him, it being 400 intoxicating capsules, containing 123.6 gms. of Alprazolam, while recovery from co-accused, Satnam Singh @ Satta, apprehended alongwith him, was 300 tablets, it being 90.06 gms, who has since been granted bail, vide order Annexure P-2, after being in custody for 6 months and 23 days.

Further, the recovery was effected from the polythenes thrown by them, thus, Charges have been framed on 26.09.2024, however, only 1 PW stands examined and there are still 7 more to go. The petitioner is involved in 3 more cases, in 2 of which, he is on bail while undergone the sentence of 2 months in 1. Reliance is placed on the judgment passed by Hon'ble The Supreme Court titled as Maulana Mohd. Amir Rashadi vs. State of U.P. and others, 2012(2) SCC 382

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