KONAN JACQUES YAO vs DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE INTELLIGENCE

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 25.03.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 27.03.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 28.03.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 3917/2025 KONAN JACQUES YAO .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Rohan Gupta and Mr. Anup Kr. Gupta, Advocates. versus DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE INTELLIGENCE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Satish Aggarwala, Sr. Standing Counsel and Mr. Gagan Vaswani, Advocate CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. By way of the present application, the applicant is seeking grant of regular bail in case bearing no. DRI/DZU/34/ENQ/13/2023, registered at Police Station DRI, DZU, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 21/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 [hereafter ‘NDPS Act’]. 2. Briefly stated, the case of the prosecution is that acting upon specific intelligence, a team of officers of the Directorate of Revenue BAIL APPLN. 3917/2025 Page 1 of 9 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:28.03.2026 17:08:26 Intelligence (DRI) intercepted three passengers, namely, Cynthia Adaobi Chukwuka (a passport holder of Nigeria), Donnatus Chukwuka (a passport holder of Nigeria), and the present applicant, Konan Jacques Yao (a passport holder of Ivory Coast), who had arrived at Terminal-3 of IGI Airport, New Delhi from Addis Ababa on 18.07.2023 at about 01:00 hrs. The said passengers were intercepted while attempting to cross the green channel, as the DRI officers had prior information that they were carrying narcotic substances, either concealed in their baggage or within their bodies. Notices under Section 50 of the NDPS Act were served upon them. Upon suspicion of internal concealment of narcotic substances, the accused pers