The court of Additional Sessions Judge Pradeep Kumar in Narnaul granted regular bail to Karamvir, an accused in a ganja-recovery case.[1] The court ordered Karamvir released on a bond of 50,000 rupees with a surety of the same amount.[1] Karamvir’s lawyer told the court that no narcotic substance was recovered from Karamvir and that he was named only on the statements of co-accused.[1] The lawyer also said the other accused in the case had already been granted bail.[1] The public prosecutor opposed bail, saying five other criminal cases were registered against Karamvir.[1] After hearing both sides, the court accepted the bail plea and ordered Karamvir’s release on conditions.[1]

The case began with an FIR at City Kanina police station, where police stopped and searched a Swift car on 30 May on a secret tip.[1] Officers recovered 17.04 grams of smack from Vikas alias Chotiwala and Manish Kumar alias Nishu, residents of Malda Vas village.[1] Police found 2 kg 60 grams of ganja, the local word for cannabis, in the car’s boot.[1] Karamvir was arrested afterwards on the basis of disclosures by the co-accused.[1]

Only the separately weighed 2.06 kg of ganja is counted as cannabis here; the 17.04 grams of smack is named to explain the mixed seizure and left out of the cannabis figure.[1]