IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.146 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-228 Year-2025 Thana- GAYA RAIL P.S. District- Gaya ====================================================== Mandeep Kumar S/o Ramashis Prasad @ Ramashish Prasad @ Ramshish Prasad @ Ram Ashish Parshad R/o Ramnagar Mandi, Govindgarh, House No. 3/9 @ House No. 319, Police Station Govindgarah, District Fatehgarah Sahib, State- Punjab ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Aryan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Jai Narain Thakur, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 2 15-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner seeks regular bail in Gaya Rail P.S. Case No. 228 of 2025 dated 30-07-2025 registered under Sections 8, 18(c) and 20(b) and ii C of the NDPS Act. 3. The allegation is of recovery of 31.600 Kg of poppy husk (doda) from the possession of the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that no contraband has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. It is also submitted that the alleged recovery is much below the commercial quantity; the notified commercial quantity of poppy Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.146 of 2026(2) dt.15-01-2026 2/3 husk (doda) being 50 kilograms. The petitioner has been in custody since 31.07.2025 and has no criminal antecedents. 5. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State has opposed the prayer. 6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sessions Judge-cum- Special Judge, NDPS Act, Gaya Ji, in connection with Gaya Rail P.S. Case No. 228 of 2025 subject to the following conditions: (i) that the petitioner shall co-operate in the trial and shall be properly represented on each and every date fixed by the Court and on his absence on two consecutive dates without sufficient reason, his bail bond shall be cancelled by the court below, (ii) that one of the bailors will be his own blood relation, preferably father, mother, brother, sister and or his wife, (iii) that the bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the court concerned if the petitioner is made accused in any other case of similar nature after his release in the present case and thereafter the court below will be at liberty to initiate the proceeding for cancellation of bail on ground of misuse (iv) that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.146 of 2026(2) dt.15-01-2026 3/3 if the petitioner tampers with the evidence or the witnesses, in that case, the prosecution will be at liberty to move for cancellation of bail and (v) that the petitioner will appear before the SHO of concerned PS in the first week of each month till the framing of charge in this case. 7. The application stands allowed. shyambihari/- (Khatim Reza, J) U