SUKHDEV SINGH @ SUKHA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner Sukhdev Singh @ Sukha seeks regular bail in case FIR No. 129 dated 19.9.2013, under Sections 21/22/25/27A/29/61/85 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter, for short "NDPS Act') and Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station Division No. 6, Ludhiana, District Ludhiana.

(2.) As per the allegations contained in the FIR, one ASI Kashmir Singh headed the police party, was patrolling near Cheema Chowk, Ludhiana. They stated to have received a secret information that Nitin Goyal s/o Pawan Goyal and Pawan Goyal s/o Ruldu Ram, who were already involved in drug-trafficking, have opened Pharmaceutical Companies known as (i) H.L. Medicines; (ii) Shri Krishna Agencies and (iii) Atlas Pharmaceuticals alongwith their other partners in Ludhiana. Another person, namely, Deepak Soni has also joined hands with them and has set up a Pharmaceutical establishment known as B.G. Pharma at Pindi Estate, Ludhiana and all of them in connivance with each other are dealing in intoxicant medicines like tablets, capsules, syrups, injections and other intoxicant powders without bills, fake bills and by preparing forged documents and by way of conspiring in huge quantities to various godowns and supply from there to Pindi Street, Ludhiana and other areas of Punjab to their customers without bills or fake bills with the help of transporters.

(3.) Pursuant to secret information, FIR was registered and raids were conducted, whereupon 8,65,000 intoxicant capsules, 1,34,50,000 intoxicant tablets, 12000 intoxicant injections and 1400 intoxicant small bottles of syrup were recovered.