CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. 7173 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7173 of 2026 Shivam Bhardwaj .....Applicant(s) Versus State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) Counsel for Applicant(s) : Kuldeep Johri Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Court No. - 69 HON'BLE JITENDRA KUMAR SINHA, J. 1. Supplementary affidavit filed on behalf of the applicant is taken on record. 2. Heard Ms. Babita Saxena, holding brief of Shri Kuldeep Johri, learned counsel for the applicant, and Shri Ashish Kumar Tripathi, learned AGA for the State-respondents and perused the record. 3. The present bail application under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has been filed on behalf of applicant, with a prayer to release him on bail in Case Crime No. 27 of 2026, under Section 8/18 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, registered at Police Station Ujhani, District Budaun, during pendency of the trial. 4. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. It is further submitted that 1 Kg of opium is said to have been recovered from the joint possession of the applicant