Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 2: High Court has denied bail to two persons having Codeine in their possession in commercial quantity and observed that duo failed to make out case for bail.
Through the medium of application, accused Tanveer Ahmad Rather and Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat were seeking bail in a case (FIR No.47/2020 for offences under Section 8/22/29 of NDPS Act) registered in Police Station, Sumbal, Bandipora.
Duo on 22.03.2020 were arrested by a Police party of Police Station, Sumbal, while on patrolling by spotting them carrying bags in their hands coming towards Sumbal.
The bag recovered from accused Hilal Ahmad Wani contained 8 bottles of Rexorid (Codeine Phosphate), 21 bottles of Omrex (Codeine Phosphate) and 6 bottles of Sivzcodiene (Codeine Phosphate) whereas the bag recovered from accused Tanveer Ahmad contained 13 bottles of Omrex (Codeine Phosphate), 4 bottles of Rexorid (Codeine Phosphate) and 4 bottles of Sivzcodiene(Codeine.
After investigation of the case, offences under Section 8/22/29 of the NDPS Act were found established against the accused-persons and charge sheet was presented before the trial court.
The court of Justice Sanjay Dhar after hearing both the parties at length and perused the record of the trial court dismissed the bail application and recorded that there is no ground, much less a reasonable ground, for believing that the applicants are not guilty of the offence.
Justice Dhar said the petitioners have not been able to make out a case of such nature. Thus there is no merit in the application. “For the foregoing reasons, the bail petition of the petitioner is dismissed at this stage”, Court concluded.
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