P&H: 10 Kg Opium Grants Bail in NDPS Case Citing Long Custody and Slow Trial The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted bail to Navpreet Singh in an NDPS case involving 10 kg of opium, holding that prolonged incarceration and delay in trial justified release despite the commercial quantity recovery. The case arose from an FIR registered at Lalru police station in SAS Nagar after a police team claimed to have recovered two bags
P&H: 10 Kg Opium Grants Bail in NDPS Case Citing Long Custody and Slow Trial
punjab-haryana
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02 Jun 2026
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Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Sections 18, 29, 61, 37, 50, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 483 — Bail - 10 Kg Opium commercial quantity case — Petitioner has no antecedents, in custody for 1 year, 8 months and 30 days, out of sixteen witnesses only one witness had been examined, and no useful purpose was likely to be served by continued detention, nothing has been left to be reocvered from possession,
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