IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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CRM-M No.14747 of 2026 Date of decision : 16.4.2026 Date of uploading : 16.4.2026 Dev Singh ………….Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …….Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. K.S. Sidhu, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. Hemant Aggarwal, DAG, Punjab ---

SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.305 dated 28.12.2025, under Sections 21(b), 18(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Section 29 of NDPS Act and Section 223 of BNS, 2023 added later on), registered at Police Station Nehianwala, District Bathinda.

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 60 loose capsules of red colour wrapped in polythene bag, 21 grams of opium in another polythene bag, 20 tobacco packets of different companies, 2 boxes of cigarettes (one was packed and another box having 3 cigarettes) and 27 grams of heroin in opened cigarettes box, allegedly found i