1 2025:CGHC:53345 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 8628 of 2025 Girish Chandra Pandey S/o Late Shri Laxmi Prasad Pandey Aged About 31 Years R/o Village Chorbhattikhurd Bharni, P.S. And Tehsil - Sakri, District Bilaspur (C.G.) ... Applicant(s) versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through Sho, Police Station Sakri, District Bilaspur (C.G.) ... Respondent(s) For Applicant(s) : Mr. Prashant Dadsena holding the brief of Mr. Shalvik Tiwari, Advocate. For Respondent(s) : Ms. Vaishali Mahiliong, Panel Lawyer. Hon'ble Mr. Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Order on Board 31.10.2025 1. This is the First bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for grant of regular bail to the applicant who has been arrested in connection with Crime No. 533/2025 registered at Police Station – Sakri, District Bilaspur (C.G.), for the offence punishable under Sections 20(B), 29 of the 2 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. 2. The case of the prosecution is that on 31.07.2025, the Police Station Sakri received secret information that residents of Chorbhathikhurd, Muslim Mohalla — namely accused Kanti Pandey and her son Girish Chandra Pandey — had procured a large quantity of ganja from Odisha. Acting on the said information, police conducted a raid, during which it was found that on the request of the accused persons, co-accused Deepak Ganda and Dileshwar Nayak had brought the contraband from Odisha in an Ertiga car bearing registration number OD-17-U/1372 and delivered it to them. Subsequently, from the possession of accused Kanti Pandey and Girish Chandra Pandey, police seized a total of 30 kilograms of ganja, 15 kilograms from a white plastic bag belonging to Kanti Pandey and 15 kilograms from a blue plastic bag belonging to Girish Chandra Pandey which were kept in a Baleno car bearing registration number CG-10- BD/4999. Both the accused were arrested on the same day, and an FIR was registered against them. Hence, the bail application. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been falsely implicated in this case and he is in jail since 31.07.2025. He further submits that the mandatory provisions with regard to search and seizure were not complied with in this case. He also submits that the applicant has one criminal antecedent of the year 2017 under the NDPS Act, in which the applicant has 3 already been acquitted and the conclusion of the trial may take quite long time. Accordingly, he prays for enlarging the applicant on regular bail. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State/non-applicant opposes the bail application and submit that the charge-sheet has been filed in the present case before the competent Court. She further submits that the quantity of contraband article i.e. 30 Kgs of Ganja has been recovered from the joint possession of the applicant and co-accused, Kanti Pandey which is much above the commercial quantity as notified under the NDPS Act and as such, the 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. From perusal of the case diary, it transpires that the contraband articles recovered i.e. 30 Kgs of Ganja, from the joint possession of the applicant and co-accused, Kanti Pandey is much above the prescribed commercial quantity threshold and counsel for the applicant has failed to give plausible explanation regarding the same, it cannot be a case of false implication, particularly when the trial is in progress. 7. Accordingly, the bail application of the applicant - Girish Chandra Pandey, involved in Crime No. 533/2025 registered at Police Station – Sakri, District Bilaspur (C.G.), for the offence punishable 4 under Sections 20(B), 29 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