SOMDUTT vs NARCOTICS CONTROL BUREAU

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$~1 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of decision: 31st July, 2025 + BAIL APPLN. 101/2025, CRL.M.A. 21259/2025 SOMDUTT .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Vikram Hegde, Mr. Abhinav Hansaraman and Mr. Trishan Dollny, Advs. versus NARCOTICS CONTROL BUREAU .....Respondent Through: Mr. Arun Khatri, SSC, NCB with Ms. Shelly Dixit, Ms. Tracy Sebastian, Ms. Anamika Bhalla and Mr. Devender Singh, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN MONGA ARUN MONGA, J. (Oral) CRL.M.A. 21260/2025 Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Application stands disposed of. BAIL APPLN. 101/2025 1. Under incarceration for about 04 years and 03 months and having remained unsuccessful in his multiple foray in past, both before this Court as well as in the Supreme Court, the applicant herein is again before this court seeking the concession of bail. His earlier bail application before this Court was dismissed vide an vide order dated 01.12.2023 which was assailed by Signature Not Verified Signed By:RENUKA BAIL APPLN. 101/2025 Page 1 of 7 NEGI Signing Date:31.07.2025 07:35:26 way of an SLP before the Supreme Court which too was dismissed vide an order dated 16.05.2024. Applicant is implicated in case SC No. 156/2021, Crime No. VIII/25/DZU/2019, under Sections 22(c)/23/29 of the NDPS Act, registered by Narcotics Control Bureau, Delhi, 2. Case of the prosecution is that on the basis of a secret information that a parcel containing narcotic tablets in huge quantity has been booked for delivery by a courier company DTDC Express Limited on 06.07.2019, a team of Narcotics Control Bureau raided the above said Courier Company. Deepak Atri, IO tried to associate public witnesses hut none would join citing various reasons. After reaching the DTDC Courier Company, the NCB Team met with Surender Dagar Securi