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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR

S.B. Criminal Miscellaneous Bail Application No. 16266/2025

Sanjay Meena S/o Shri Bhanwar Lal Meena, R/o Tandi Meena Basti, Guradi Chhipabarod District Baran Raj.

----Applicant Versus

State of Rajasthan through PP ----Respondent

For Petitioner(s) : Ms. Neha Sahni For Respondent(s) : Mr. Vivek Sharma, PP

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SAMEER JAIN

Order

30/03/2026

1. The present anticipatory bail application has been filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 on behalf of the accused-applicant in connection with FIR No. 874/2023 registered at Police Station Kanota, District Jaipur City (East) for the offence(s) under Section

8 and 21 of the NDPS Act, 1985.

2. Learned counsel for the accused-applicant has submitted that the applicant is a young person, aged about 27 years. It is submitted that there are no criminal antecedents registered against the applicant. It is further submitted that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the instant matter on basis of the statement of the co-accused, wherein the applicant was alleged to be the seller of the recovered contraband. It is further submitted that the quantity of contraband allegedly recovered from the applicant is approximately 21 grams of smack, which is much less than the prescribed commercial quantity of 250 grams. It is next

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anticipatory bail to the applicant.

3. Per contra, learned Public Prosecutor has vehemently

opposed the instant bail application.

4. Having heard the arguments advanced by learned counsel for the parties, considering the fact that the applicant is a young person, aged about 27 years; that there are no criminal antecedents against the applicant; that the applicant has allegedly been implicated on the basis of the statement of the co-accused; that the quantity of contraband recovered from the applicant is approximately 21 grams of smack, which is much less than the prescribed commercial quantity of 250 grams, and looking to the overall facts and circumstances of the case and material available on record but without commenting on merits/demerits of the case, this court is inclined to allow the bail application of the accused-

applicant and enlarge him on bail.

5. Accordingly, the anticipatory bail application is allowed. The S.H.O/I.O/Arresting Officer, Police Station Kanota, District Jaipur City (East) in F.I.R. No. 874/2023 is directed that in the event of arrest of the accused-applicant Sanjay Meena S/o Shri Bhanwar Lal Meena, he shall be released on bail, provided he furnishes a personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with two sureties in the sum of Rs.25,000/- each to the satisfaction of the S.H.O/I.O/Arresting Officer of the concerned Police Station on the

following conditions:-

(i) that the applicant shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when

required;

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(ii) that the applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to

the court or any police officer, and (iii) that the applicant shall not leave India

without prior permission of the Court.

(SAMEER JAIN),J

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