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2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that case of the prosecution is that on 10.04.2025, accused Mohammad Sharif, who was lodged in the lock-up of the police station in connection with FIR No. 10 dated 07.03.2025, registered under Sections 21, 29, 27-A, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act and Section 111 of the BNS, was taken out of the lock-up by the SI/SHO for the purpose of investigation. During the course of investigation, the said accused allegedly made a disclosure statement stating that he had ordered a consignment of 500 grams of heroin from Pakistan through a drone on 07.01.2025 at about 5:30 PM after making a phone call. Accused also disclosed that out of the said consignment, he had given 10 grams of heroin to Surjit Kaur, while the remaining quantity had been sold in retail to certain Gujjars from the J&K side, whose names he did not remember. The remaining heroin, according to him, had been concealed in a polythene envelope buried in the bushes on the banks of the Ujj River behind the cremation ground of village Bamial, and only he knew about the said concealment and could get the same recovered.

3. It is further the case of the prosecution that on 13.04.2025, co- accused Mohammad Sharif made another disclosure statement stating that he used to order consignments of heroin from Pakistan through drones. He stated that although he did not remember the exact date, sometime in the month of January, when there was dense fog, he along with co-accused Lalu and Bhupinder Singh (present petitioner) had sent a location from the mobile phone of Bhupinder Singh to Pakistan for delivery of heroin through a drone near the Ujj River at Bamial, close to his house.

He further disclosed that Bhupinder Singh used to contact a person named Khan in Pakistan through his mobile phone to place orders for heroin and would hand over his phone to Lalu for the same purpose. It was further stated that after the location was shared, the drone would drop packets of 500 grams of heroin, and within about 30 minutes, the drone would make four rounds at the same location, thereby dropping a total of 2 kilograms of heroin. Thereafter, he and co-accused Lalu would collect the heroin so dropped and deliver the same to Bhupinder Singh, who in return allegedly paid them Rs.50,000 in cash for each round. On the basis of the said disclosure statement, present petitioner and co-accused Lalu were nominated in the present case.

As per the custody certificate, in the present case, petitioner has already undergone 10 months and 20 days period inside jail.

8. Learned State counsel has also filed status report dated 25.02.2026 in the Court today and the same is taken on record.

9. Learned State counsel while opposing the prayer and submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that petitioner was the key intermediary who maintained direct communication with a Pakistani national named Khan through Whatsapp for arranging the supply of heroin consignments across the border. Petitioner, in conspiracy with the co-accused Lalu and Mohammad Sharif, was responsible for transmitting the GPS locations to the Pakistani handlers for the precise dropping of heroin consignments through drones.