2025:HHC:5936
IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA.
Cr.MP(M) No.360 of 2025
Reserved on : 07.03.2025
Decided on: 13.03.2025
Shami Kumar …Applicant
Versus
State of Himachal Pradesh …Respondent
Coram
The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Virender Singh, Judge.
Whether approved for reporting?
For the applicant : Mr. Mukesh Sharma, Advocate.
For the respondent : Mr. Tejasvi Sharma and Mr.
Mohinder Zharaick, Additional
Advocates General, with Mr. Rohit
Sharma, Deputy Advocate General,
assisted by HC Deepak No.45, Police
Station East, Shimla, District Shimla,
H.P.
Virender Singh, Judge
By way of the present application, filed under
Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita,
2023 (hereinafter referred to as ‘BNSS’), applicant-Shami
Kumar has sought his release, on bail, during the pendency
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of the trial, in case FIR No.73 of 2023, dated 13.07.2023,
registered under Sections 21 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs &
Psychotropic Substances Act (hereinafter referred to as the
‘NDPS Act’), with Police Station East Shimla, District
Shimla, H.P.