CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. 34635 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 34635 of 2025 Shivcharan Mandal .....Applicant(s) Versus State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) Counsel for Applicant(s) : Brij Lal Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Court No. - 68 HON'BLE ASHUTOSH SRIVASTAVA, J. Heard Sri B. L. Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Manoj Kumar Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State-Respondent and perused the record of the case. The present bail application has been filed on behalf of applicant with a prayer to release him on bail in Case Crime No. 425 of 2025, under Section 8/20 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Police Station Beta-2, District Gautam Buddh Nagar. Learned counsel for the applicant has contended that 20.5 Kg of Ganja is alleged to have been recovered from the possession of the applicant, which is slightly higher from the commercial quantity. In fact no such recovery was effected from the applicant. It is further submitted that since such recovery is not supported by independent witness, possibility of his false implication in the crime cannot be ruled out. It is next contended that in the present case the prosecution has