P&H: Grants Bail in NDPS Case, Says Antecedents of accused alone was not sufficient to decline bail when a case for bail was otherwise made out on the facts and circumstances of case.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted regular bail to Gurpreet Singh in a narcotics case involving recovery of 989 grams of heroin, observing that he had been in custody for over 1 year and 5 months and that the trial had moved at a glacial pace.
Justice Sumeet Goel was hearing a second bail petition filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in an FIR registered under Sections 21, 29 and 25 of the NDPS Act at Sadar Ferozepur police station. The petitioner argued that mandatory NDPS safeguards had not been followed and that...
