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Date or directions No and Registrar’s order with Signatures 2026:UHC:2417 BA1 No. 424 of 2026 Jaspal ....Applicant Vs.

State of Uttarakhand ......Respondent Hon’ble Ashish Naithani, J.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Chandel, learned counsel for the Applicant.

2. Mr. N.S. Kaniyal, learned Brief Holder for the State of Uttarakhand.

3. The present Bail Application has been moved by the Applicant—Jaspal, aged about 22 years, S/o Vikram Singh, R/o Village Pratappur No. 7, P.S. Nanakmatta, District Udham Singh Nagar. The Applicant is in judicial custody in connection with Case Crime/FIR No. 04 of 2026, registered at Police Station Ranikhet, District Almora, for the offences punishable under Sections 8/20 of the N.D.P.S. Act, 1985.

4. Heard Mr. Sanjay Kumar Chandel, learned counsel for the Applicant, and Mr. N.S. Kaniyal, learned A.G.A. for the State. The record has been perused.

5. The primary grounds for bail, as advanced on behalf of the Applicant, are that the Applicant and co-accused persons have been falsely implicated; that the alleged recovery is a joint recovery, but no specific attribution has been made as to which bag belonged to