AMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF H.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner has filed the present petition for seeking regular bail in FIR No. 112 of 2024, dtd. 25/9/2024, registered at Police Station Palampur, District Kangra, H.P., for the commission of an offence punishable under Sec. 20 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

(2.) It has been asserted that the petitioner was arrested on 25/9/2024. The prosecution's case is false and is based upon an absurd, baseless and imaginary story. As per the prosecution, 1 kg 374 grams of charas was recovered by the police The petitioner has no role in the commission of crime. There are no reasonable grounds to believe that the petitioner has committed the offence. Therefore, it was prayed that the present petition be allowed and the petitioner be released on bail.

(3.) The petition is opposed by filing a status report asserting that the police we e on pa rolling duty on 25/9/2024. They had set up naka at Chadiyar Chowk at 12:30 am. A vehicle bearing registrati n No. HP66-3489 was intercepted by the police at 3:40 am. The driver identified himself as Amar Singh (the present petitioner), and the person sitting in the front seat identified imself as Mukesh Thakur. The police asked the driver to produce the document. The driver produced the registration certificate in the name of Karma Bodh Singh. The driver could not produce the license and became frightened. The police searched the vehicle in the presence of Raju and recovered four packets wrapped with brown tape. These were opened and found to contain charas weighing 1.374 kilograms. The police seized the charas and arrested the petitioner and the co-accused. The charas was sent to SFSL, Junga, and as per the result, it was confirmed to be an abstract of cannabis and a sample of charas. The charge sheet was filed before the Court on 24/3/2025. FIR No. 292 of 2020 dtd. 5/7/2020 is registered against the petitioner for the commission of offences punishable under Ss. 20 and 29 of the ND&PS Act at Police Station Harmara, Jaipur, Rajasthan. Hence, the status report.