Petitioners Eshan Sharma and Shakiv Kapoor sought regular bail in an NDPS Act case (FIR No. 57/2026, PS Palampur) where heroin was recovered from a co-accused, and the petitioners were implicated solely on the basis of financial transactions made to that co-accused. The Himachal Pradesh High Court noted that no contraband was recovered from the petitioners themselves, and that the confessional statements of the co-accused were inadmissible under Section 162 CrPC and Section 25 of the Indian Evidence Act. The court held that financial transactions alone were insufficient to deny bail, that the chargesheet had already been filed making continued custody purposeless, and that any apprehension of re-offending could be addressed through bail conditions. Accordingly, the court granted bail to the petitioners subject to conditions.