228 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 09.04.2026 Heera Singh @ Hira ..... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ..... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ Present: Mr. Hitesh Chopra, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Diya Sodhi, Senior DAG, Haryana.

RAJESH BHARDWAJ, J.

1. Petitioner has approached this Court by way of present fourth petition praying for granting him regular bail in case FIR No.10 dated 09.02.2025, under Section 18(61-85-29) of NDPS Act, registered at Police Station Purana Shalla, District Gurdaspur.

2. Succinctly the facts of the case are that the police while on patrolling on 09.02.2025 apprehended 02 young persons, namely, Dhrinder Shah and Bablu Yadav, who were suspected to be carrying some narcotic substance in the polybag being thrown by them. Thus, search was conducted. On conducting the search of the polybags, 750 grams of opium from each, was recovered from their possession. They failed to produce any license regarding the possession of the same. Thus, the FIR was registered and investigation commenced. Samples taken were sent to FSL. During investigation, complicity of the petitioner was surfaced who was found