The petitioner, Inderjit Singh Karori, sought pre-arrest bail before the Himachal Pradesh High Court in connection with FIR No. 49 of 2026 registered at Police Station Mehatpur, District Una, for offences under Sections 15, 25, and 29 of the NDPS Act, arising from the recovery of large quantities of poppy husk. The petitioner claimed he was falsely implicated solely on the basis of a co-accused's statement, which is inadmissible in evidence, and that he was an innocent person who sold buffalo milk. The State opposed the petition, pointing to CCTV footage placing the petitioner near the seized vehicle, CDR records showing he was in contact with co-accused Harpreet Singh and at the same location on the date of the offence, statements by two co-accused implicating him as the person who directed the purchase of poppy husk, and the fact that he had absconded. The Court, relying on Supreme Court precedents including P. Chidambaram v. Directorate of Enforcement (2019) 9 SCC 24, Srikant Upadhyay v. State of Bihar (2024), Pratibha Manchanda v. State of Haryana (2023) 8 SCC 181, and Devinder Kumar Bansal v. State of Punjab (2025) 4 SCC 493, reiterated that anticipatory bail is an extraordinary remedy to be granted only in exceptional circumstances, and proceeded to weigh the gravity of the offence, the need for custodial interrogation, and the material on record against the petitioner.