TEK CHAND vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-29525-2026 -1- 224 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-29525-2026 Date of decision: 27.05.2026 Tek Chand .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab ..... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Gaurav Kalsi, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Raj Karan Singh, AAG, Punjab. RAJESH BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral) 1. Petitioner has approached this Court by way of filing the present third petition praying for grant of regular bail to him in case FIR No.64 dated 04.06.2025, under Sections 20, 27-A (Section 29 added later on) of the NDPS Act, 1985, registered at Police Station Division Taragarh, District Pathankot. 2. Succinctly, the facts of the case are that the police party, while on patrolling on 04.06.2025, they saw a Mahindra Bolero carrier coming in which two persons were travelling. On seeing the police party, they got perplexed. The driver of the vehicle stopped and parked it, after which both the driver and the person seated on the conductor’s seat fled towards a katcha passage through the fields. The police on suspicion, surrounded them and they were apprehended. The driver threw polythene envelope on road side. On asking, the driver of