By way of the present common judgment, this Court proceeds to
adjudicate the aforesaid 05 petitions together in view of the admitted
commonality of factual matrix and congruity of legal issues involved therein,
as fairly conceded by the learned counsel appearing for the respective parties.
For the sake of convenience & brevity, the facts are extracted
from CRM-
CRM-M-59929-
59929-2024 titled as Ranjit Singh alias Sonu versus State of
Punjab.
Punjab
2. Present petitions have been filed under Section 483 of the
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of
regular bail to the petitioner(s), in case bearing FIR No.164 dated 25.08.2021,
registered for the offences punishable under Sections 21/23 of the Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’)
(Sections 21-C, 23, 25, 27-A, 29, 61 & 85 of the NDPS Act and Sections 411,
473, 120-B & 34 of the IPC added later on), at Police Station Kathunangal,
District Amritsar.
