1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.2485/2009. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office notes, office Memoranda of Coram,appearances, Court’s orders Court’s or Judge’s orders. or directions and Registrar’s orders ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr.Sachind Deshmukh, Adv. For Applicants; Mr.PM Shinde, APP for State. ___ CORAM : K.U.CHANDIWAL, J. DATE : 30th July, 2009. ... 1) Heard learned Counsel and APP. 2) Based on secret information, pre-raid arrangements were made, communicating the superiors and the trap was arranged. It was established that the description of the suspects indicted was matching to the persons followed in a group. Consequently, they were accosted. Police officer introduced himself along with panch and other witnesses, present with weighing instrument and sealing material. The accused were individually asked in respect of their right under Section 50 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985(for short, NDPS Act ). The accused and others were searched by the raiding party, during which process, cannabis (ganja), weighing 8 kg and 6 kg was 2 found. It was with varied weights and cash. The total seizure of ganja was 52 kg. The quantity, recovered from the accused in the raid, will attract that there was infraction of commercial quantity, which has ceiling of 20 kg. Consequently, provisions of Section 37 of NDPS Act, 1985 will play pivotal role in the matter. 3) The satisfaction of the Judge, before entertaining such application for bail, is a pre-requisite. The documentary evidence placed before me prima facie indicate that the accused are involved in transacting the prohibited items in violation of statutory terms of Section 20 r/w Section 29 of NDPS Act. Consequently, the bail application is rejected. ( K.U.CHANDIWAL ) JUDGE bdv/cran2485.09