The petitioner Narinder sought regular bail before the Himachal Pradesh High Court in connection with FIR No. 50 of 2026, registered at Police Station West Boileauganj, for offences under Sections 21 and 29 of the NDPS Act. The police had intercepted a vehicle in which the petitioner and four others were travelling, and recovered 93.970 grams of heroin from the dashboard of the vehicle; no recovery was made directly from the petitioner's person. The petitioner argued that since the quantity was below commercial quantity, the stringent conditions of Section 37 of the NDPS Act did not apply, and that he had no criminal antecedents. However, the State opposed bail, contending that the petitioner was present in the vehicle from which the recovery was made and had prior criminal cases registered against him (FIR Nos. 330/2023, 436/2014, 489/2015, and 49/2017). The court considered the broad principles for grant of bail as laid down by the Supreme Court in Pinki v. State of U.P. (2025) 7 SCC 314 and other precedents, examining factors such as nature of the charge, criminal antecedents, and likelihood of repeating the offence.