IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-26244-2026 Date of decision: 08.05.2026 SHARANJIT SINGH @ BUGGI ….Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL Present:- Mr. Sumit Dua, Advocate for the petitioner.

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RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J. (ORAL)

1. The present petition has been preferred under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, assailing the impugned order dated 16.03.2026 (Annexure P-7), whereby the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Jalandhar has declared the petitioner a proclaimed offender.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that FIR No.182 dated 03.09.2025 u/s 21 of the NDPS Act (Section 29 of the NDPS Act added later on), was registered at P.S. Basti Bawa Khel, District Jalandhar, against the petitioner. He submits that the petitioner applied for bail before the learned Sessions Court, however, his bail application was dismissed. He submits that in between the police party continued to conduct raid at his house where they got the knowledge that the petitioner was not residing there and accordingly police approached the learned Trial Court for issuance of non-bailable warrants agai