ORDER

Date : 19-07-2021 Heard Mr. T. Tapak, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. T. Ete, learned Addl. P.P., appearing on behalf of the State of Arunachal Pradesh.

This is a bail application preferred by the petitioner under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, praying for grant of bail to the accused Shri Khampai Wangsa who was arrested by the Pongchau police on 25.02.2021, in connection with Pongchau P.S. Case No.

06/2021 u/s. 17/18 of the NDPS Act.

The aforesaid police case came to be registered on an First Information Report(FIR), dated

24.02.2021, lodged before the Officer-in-Charge of the Pongchau Police Station, by one Rank Nb/Sub Mahesh Chandra of 40-Assam Rifles stating that on 24.02.2021, at around 0930 hours, one of the passengers, namely, Smt. Phephot Wangsa, wife of Khampai Wangsa, travelling from Konsa to Longding in Vehicle No. AR-18/1692 was found to be in possession of 22 packets of suspected brown sugar(weight 304 gms. without container), for which, Smti. Phephot Wangsa was arrested on the same day.

The petitioner by filing this bail application contends that the accused, herein, has been in the custody since 25.02.2021 and he is nowhere in