IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND

AT NAINITAL

First Bail Application No. 431 of 2025

Paramjeet Rathi ......Applicant

Vs.

State of Uttarakhand …..Respondent

Presence:

Mr. Mahendra Pal, learned senior advocate assisted by Ms. Medha Pandey, learned counsel for

the Applicant.

Mr. Dinesh Chauhan, learned Brief Holder, for the State of Uttarakhand.

Hon’ble Ashish Naithani, J (Oral)

1. The present bail application arises out of Case Crime No.22 of 2024

registered at Police Station Reeth Sahib, District Champawat, under Sections 8/20/29/60 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The Applicant, who is in custody since 08.01.2025, seeks

enlargement on bail pending trial.

2. The factual matrix as reflected in the FIR, charge-sheet and the affidavits

on record is that on 13.11.2024 a recovery of hashish, weighed as 11 kg 200 gms, was affected and four persons including the Applicant were named in the FIR as persons allegedly connected with the recovery; subsequent investigation resulted in submission of a charge-sheet and the

filing of forensic reports.

3. The Applicant contests the prosecution case on the ground that he was not

present at the scene, nothing was recovered from his person, the alle