The petitioner Sushil Kumar sought regular bail before the Himachal Pradesh High Court in connection with FIR No. 44 of 2026, registered at Police Station Baijnath, District Kangra, for offences under Sections 20, 25, and 29 of the NDPS Act. The prosecution alleged that on the intervening night of 23–24 March 2026, police intercepted an HRTC bus and recovered 281 grams of Charas from a backpack kept between the petitioner and co-accused Manoj, both of whose blood samples tested positive for Tetrahydrocannabinol. The petitioner contended that the quantity recovered was 'intermediate' and therefore the stringent conditions of Section 37 of the NDPS Act did not apply, that there was no material directly linking him to the contraband, and that the charge sheet had already been filed. The court considered the broad principles for granting 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, prima facie evidence, severity of punishment, and risk of witness tampering. The judgment text as provided ends mid-analysis, so the final order is not captured in the supplied text.