SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures UKHC010121342026 COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS 2026:UHC:5817 BA1/1219/2026 Sanket Verma --Applicant Versus State Of Uttarakhand --Respondent Hon'ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. Ms. Geetanjali Dhami and Mr. Sunder Singh Mehra, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. Tumul Nainwal, learned AGA for the State. 3. The present applicant-Sanket Verma, S/o Late Shri Shiv Kumar Verma is praying for bail in reference to First Information Report dated 22.06.2026 bearing FIR No.0208 of 2026, P.S. Haldwani, District Nainital wherein the present applicant has been implicated for the offence punishable under Section 8/20 of NDPS Act. 4. The alleged contraband, which is shown to be recovered, is smack and the quantity as shown, no doubt, is non- commercial one. 5. It is argued by learned counsel for the applicant that applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and the mandatory provision of NDPS Act has not been substantially complied with; about the criminal antecedents, learned counsel for the applicant disclosed that applicant has criminal antecedents of more than 9 cases; annexure 3 to the bail application is the criminal antecedents of the applicant and this document also shows that the applicant is the active history sheeter in Police Station, Haldwani. 6. Mr. Tumul Nainwal, learned AGA for the State submits that the present applicant is indulged in criminal antecedents since 2016, which is evident from the chart of criminal antecedents, annexed as annexure 3 and the present one is relating to the recovery of smack from the present applicant, therefore, taking into consideration the past history of the present applicant and the contraband, which is recovered from the applicant, the applicant does not deserve for bail as repeatedly he is indulged in criminal antecedents since 2016. 7. After hearing the rival submission of learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration long history of the present applicant and the fact that he is active history sheeter of Haldwani and further taking into consideration that the alleged contraband, which is recovered, is smack, this Court is of the view that applicant does not deserve for bail. 8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the bail application is rejected. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 15.07.2026 Arti