AB 1/2011 BEFORE HON’BLE JUSTICE MR HN SARMA Heard Mr. C. Baruah, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner. By this application, the petitioners have prayed for releasing him on pr e-arrest bail in the event of his arrest in connection with Dibrugarh P.S. Case No. 657/2010 under Section 22 of the N.D.P.S. Act. The allegation against the petitioner in the FIR inter alia is that whil e one Roshan Ali was selling drugs near the gate of the petitioner’s residence a t Kalibari area of Dibrugarh town, he was caught by the investigating agency, wh ich were procured from the house of the present petitioner. It is further allege d that upon search of the house of the petitioner packets of brown sugar under t he bedcover of the petitioner weighing 18 grams were recovered and those were se ized by the I/O. In view of the above allegation levelled against the petitioner, I do no t consider it to be a fit case to exercise the jurisdiction under Section 438 Cr PC for releasing the petitioner on pre-arrest bail. Accordingly, the prayer for pre-arrest bail stands rejected.