IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 23^rd April, 2026 Jagbeer ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Vaibhav Narang, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Himani Arora, Deputy 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. 37 dated 28.02.2026 registered under Section 15 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short, ‘NDPS Act’) (Section 29 of NDPS Act added later on) at Police Station Dujana.

2. As per the allegations, on 28.02.2026, the accused Vipin and Naveen were apprehended and 02 kgs and 10 grams of poppy straw was recovered from the canter in which they were found sitting. The recovered contraband was taken into possession. They were formally arrested. On interrogation, they suffered disclosure statements, on the basis of which the present petitioner was nominated as additional accused on the allegation that he was the registered owner of the canter from which