IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 25^th May, 2026 Rahul ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Satnam Singh Gill, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Neeraj Poswal, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case bearing FIR No. 104 dated 05.04.2026 registered under Section 18of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, ‘NDPS Act’) (Section 29(1) of NDPS Act added later on) at Police Station Ladwa, District Kurukshetra.

2. As per the allegations, on 05.04.2026, on receipt of a secret information, a raiding party was formed which reached at the informed place and apprehended accused Dheeraj Chauhan, from whose conscious possession 253 grams of opium was recovered. The same was taken into possession. He was taken into custody. He suffered a disclosure statement admitting his involvement in the crime. On his disclosure statement, the present petitioner was nominated as c