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High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/55922/2025allowed

Angrej Singh Alias Raja v. State Of Punjab

2026-03-23Mr. Justice Sanjay Vashisth9 pages

      

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& " A) Brief Facst of case: •That on 03.01.2025, between 12:30 PM to 01:40 PM, checking in Barrack No.5 of Ward No.6, was conducted on the basis of secret information, which led to recovery of 12 touch screen mobile phones, 1 keypad mobile phone and other prohibited/contraband items by breaking the flood of the pit made inside the barrack for inmates i.e. 2 VIVO mobile phones, without SIM, one Oppo Mobile phone having one Airtel Sim

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0923, ID A291000921 1291445550, one VIVO mobile phone having one Airtel Sim ID 899100921318695505 and one JIO Sim ID 8991867040036507254, two Redmi mobile phones without Sim, one Oppo mobile phone without SIM, one Realme mobile phone having one Airtel SIM ID 8991000921129118336 U, one Redmi mobile phone having one Airtel SIM 8991000922507132873 U, one MOTOROLA keypad mobile phone, three mobile chargers, 6 airpods, one data cable, 16 earphones, 9 yellow tapes and 2 white tapes wrapped packets of substance containing 5150 intoxicant tablets, one packet wrapped in white tape containing sulphate like narcotic substance, weighing 218 grams, two packets wrapped in yellow envelopes containing opium, weighing 102 grams including envelope, 12 yellow and 8 white wrapped packets containing substance like heroin, weighing 1255 grams including envelope and in this regard, the present case FIR No.

03 dated 01.01.2025, under section 18(b)/20/21C/22C of the NDPS Act & 42/52A of the Prison Act has been registered at Police Station Goindwal Sahib, District Tarn Taran against 1 unknown person. On dated 09.01.2025, SI Balwinder Singh nominated (i) Amolak Singh @Anmol (ii) Angrej Singh @ Raja (iii Chamkaur Singh @Soni (iv) Deepak Kumar @ Deepa @ Kochar and (v) Palwinder Singh Pinder as accused in the present FIR. Thereafter, the investigation of the present case was transferred from SSP Tarn Taran to the AntiNarcotics Task Force (ANTF) vide Director, BOL, Punjab office order No. 106 111/Crime/Inv5 dated 08.01.2025. Subsequently, vide order No. 170409/AC5 dated 28.01.

2025, the Special Director General of Police, Special Task Force, Punjab, transferred the investigation to ANTF, Border Range, Amritsar, and constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the present case. In pursuance thereof, the NOTANTF, Border Range, Amritsar received the case file on 22.04.2025, whereafter the investigation was taken over and conducted by the SIT.

 





That during the course of investigation on 09.01.2025, the Investigating 68Officer sought the list of the inmates of Barrack No.5 of Ward No.06 of Central Jail, Sri Goindwal Sahib and total 36 inmates were found to be lodged in Barrack No.5 and from the said 36 inmates, Several cases commercial cases under the provisions of NDPS Act have been registered against the accused Chamkaur Singh @ Sunny Ipetitioner in CRMM5992720251, Amolak Singh alias Anmol, Angrej Singh alias Raja [petitioner in CRMM559222025), Deepak Kumar @ Deepa Ipetitioner in CRMM596872025| and Palwinder Singh alias Bhinder and on the basis of which aforesaid accused have been nominated in the present FIR and thereafter 31 other coaccused have been nominated in the present case vide DDR No.33 dated 04.07.2025, incorporated in Roznamcha at Police Station Goindwal Sahib, District Tarn Taran.

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• That during the course of investigation, the arrest of accused Chamkaur Singh Sunny [petitioner in CRMM599272025], Amolak Singh alias Anmol, Deepak Kumar @ Deepa[petitioner in CRMM596872025], Angrej Singh alias Raja petitioner in CRMM559222025] and Palwinder Singh alias Bhinder has been made in the present case on 11.01.2025 by investigating officer from P.S. Goindwal Sahib, Distt. Tarn Taran, after obtaining their production warrants from the learned Court of Illaqa Magistrate, Khadur Sahib, District Tarn Taran. Thereafter the arrest of accused Ranjodh Singh @ Bablu [petitioner in CRMM638772025], Ajay S/o Harbans Singh [petitioner in CRMM674052025], Ajay S/o Ranjit Singh, Ajay s/o Mukhtar Singh, Bharat Singh S/o Makhan Singh has been made in the present case on 11.08.2025 by ANTE, Boder Range, Amita after obtaining their production warrants.

      • That on 03.01.2025, during the checking of Barrack No.05 of Ward No.6 of the jail, the jail authority broke the pit made for the prisoners to rest in the barrack and 13 mobile charges, 06

% Airpods, 1 data cable, 16 ear phones, 515 white colored Intoxicant Tablets, 218 grams of Sulfa like Intoxicant Powder, 98 grams of opium and 1170 grams of heroin were recovered from the pit made in the Barrack. The recovery effected in the present case is a joint recovery, as the aforesaid articles were recovered from a common concealed pit inside the barrack where multiple inmates, including the petitioners and other coaccused, were lodged together. No recovery has been effected from the conscious possession of any individual accused, and the recovery pertains to the common area accessible to all inmates lodged in the said barrack.



  

   ! " • That the recovered 13 mobile phones were sent to FSL to get the detailed record regarding aforesaid mobile phones vide letter no. 1875/ Reader dated 12.11.2025. Subsequently, a reminder letter was also sent by the office of anti Narcotics Task Force, Border Range, Amritsar to State Cyber Crime, SAS Nagar regarding extraction of data from the aforesaid recovered 13 mobile phones vide letter no.2188/ Reader dated 30.12.2025. However, theFSL report is still awaited." 4      %"   )   

 

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