NAVEEN HANDA vs CENTRAL BUREAU NARCOTICS

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$~54 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of decision: 25th July, 2025 + BAIL APPLN. 4070/2024 NAVEEN HANDA .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Mercy Hussain, Mr. Nitin Narang and Ms. Kirti Singh, Advocates. versus CENTRAL BUREAU NARCOTICS .....Respondent Through: Mr. Satish Aggarwala, Senior Standing Counsel with Mr. Gagan Vaswani, Advocate. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN MONGA ARUN MONGA, J. (Oral) 1. Claiming himself to be falsely implicated, the applicant herein, a licensee under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and carrying out the business of drugs and medicines (scheduled under NDPS Act), is before this Court seeking bail for alleged offences committed under Sections 21, 22, 29 and 30 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 („NDPS Act‟), for which a case has been registered by Central Bureau of Narcotics of Delhi bearing No.PDI/DEL/Seizure/4/2024. 2. Succinct facts as pleaded in the bail application are as follows: On 13.02.2024, a team of inspectors from the Central Bureau of Narcotics Signature Not Verified Signed By:RENUKA BAIL APPLN. 4070/2024 Page 1 of 11 NEGI Signing Date:26.07.2025 19:35:49 (CBN), New Delhi, conducted a search at the premises of M/s Vin Healthcare in the absence of the applicant. A personal search of all individuals present yielded no incriminating material. The team then inspected the stock of NDPS medicines and found discrepancies between the recorded stock and the actual inventory. 2.1. In light of these discrepancies, the applicant was informed of his rights under Section 50 of the NDPS Act. He gave written consent for a search. A detailed search of the premises led to the seizure of various NDPS drugs, which were sealed, labelled, and documented in the seizure memo. Separate lists were prepared for retail and wh