URUKAPA AHMED @ BABADON @ WILLIAM @ JOSEPH vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

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$~75 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 03.03.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 3543/2024, Crl. M.A. Nos.29644/2024 & 34718/2024 URUKAPA AHMED @ BABADON @ WILLIAM @ JOSEPH .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Chetan Bhardwaj, Ms Priyal Bhardwaj and Mr. Dhanush Kumar, Advocates versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State for the State CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J. (ORAL) 1. The present bail application has been filed on behalf of the applicant, seeking grant of regular bail in case arising out of FIR No. 146/2021, registered at Police Station Crime Branch, Delhi, for offences punishable under Sections 21/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 [hereafter „NDPS Act‟] and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, 1946. 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that on 29.07.2021, ASI Sanjay Kumar, posted at office of SOS-I, Crime Branch, Prashant Vihar, had received a secret information that one African citizen, Signature Not Verified BAIL APPLN.3543/2024 Page 1 of 8 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:11.03.2025 19:12:41 who introduces himself as William, used to supply narcotic substance i.e. Heroin in Delhi NCR, and he could be apprehended at about 4 PM in Uttam Nagar area, where he would come to deliver a consignment of Heroin. Pursuant to same, a raiding team was constituted and the same had reached Uttam Nagar, near metro pillar number 768, at about 3:30 PM. It is alleged that at about 5:30 PM, one person had come on a scooty and taken out a packet from its boot, and handed over the same to another person, who had kept the same in his pant‟s pocket. The person who had received the said packet was identified as William by the secret informer.