1 2025:CGHC:51755 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 8333 of 2025 Sheshnarayan Verma @ Jugnu S/o Late Shri Goverdhan Verma Aged About 56 Years (Wrongly Mentioned 52 In Certified Copy) R/o Potiyakala Durg, Tahsil And Distt. Durg, Chhattisgarh. ... Applicant(s) versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through The P.S. Padmnabhpur, Distt. Durg, Chhattisgarh. ... Respondent(s) For Applicant(s) : Mr. Vipin Tiwari, Advocate. For Respondent(s) : Ms. Ankita Shukla, Panel Lawyer. Hon'ble Mr. Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Order on Board 16/10/2025 1. This is the first bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the applicant who has been arrested in connection with Crime No. 322/2025 registered at Police Station Padmnabhpur, Distt. Durg (C.G.), for the offence punishable under AKHILESH KUMAR DEWANGAN Digitally signed by AKHILESH KUMAR DEWANGAN 2 Sections 20(b), 27(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 16.09.2025, as per secret information received from the informant, the Police of Police Station Padmnabhpur, Distt. Durg seized 1.356 kgs of Ganja from the possession of the applicant, which led to the registration of the aforesaid offence against the applicant and subsequently, the applicant was arrested. Hence, the bail application. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the applicant has been falsely implicated in this case and he is in jail since 16.09.2025. He would further submit that the mandatory provisions with regard to search and seizure were not complied with in this case, so far as criminal antecedent of the applicant is concerned, applicant has one criminal antecedent of the year 2025 under the NDPS Act, further the conclusion of the trial may take quite long time. Accordingly, he prays for enlarging the applicant on regular bail. 4. Learned State counsel would oppose the bail application and submit that though the charge-sheet has not been filed in the present case, but the applicant has one criminal antecedent of the year 2025 under the NDPS Act. As such, the present applicant is not entitled to be released on bail. 5. I have heard learned counsel appearing for the parties and perused the case diary. 6. Considering the fact that though the charge-sheet has not been filed 3 in the present case, but the applicant has one criminal antecedent of the year 2025 under the NDPS Act and in light of the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in Deepak Yadav v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Another, reported in (2022) 8 SCC 559, wherein the Hon’ble Supreme Court had cancelled the bail granted to the accused therein on the ground that the accused had previous antecedents, this Court is of the opinion that is not a fit case to enlarge the applicant on regular bail. 7. Accordingly, the bail application of the applicant - Sheshnarayan Verma @ Jugnu, involved in Crime No. 322/2025 registered at Police Station Padmnabhpur, Distt. Durg (C.G.), for the offence punishable under Sections 20(b), 27(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, is rejected. 8. Needless to say that the trial Court concerned is at liberty to proceed and conclude the trial expeditiously. 9. Office is directed to send a certified copy of this order to the trial Court concerned for necessary information and compliance. - Sd/- (Ramesh Sinha) Chief Justice Akhil