AGARTALA, India, May 11 -- Tripura High Court issued the following order/judgement on April 9:

1. Heard learned counsels of both sides.

2. As per the FIR, one vehicle bearing Registration No. AS01-HC6438 was detained on 10.02.2025 at Ambassa while it was proceeding towards Agartala and total 9,24,000 nos. of suspected 'Yaba' tablets of total weight 100.095 kg were recovered from the said vehicle which was kept inside cuboidal artificial improvised chamber attached to the fuel tank of the vehicle. The driver namely, Sibajul Hossain and another co-driver, namely, Sairul Islam were arrested. Police proceeded with the investigation and ultimately, laid the charge sheet against five arrested accused persons, namely, Ansar Uddin Laskar, Sibajul Hossain, Shamim Uddin Purkayastha, Saddam Hossain, Billal Miah along with other three accused persons, namely, Abdul Qader, Saikul Islam, and Sajahan Alom Laskar showing them absconder. Accused Saikul Islam and Sajahan Alom Laskar have now prayed for bail. They are in custody from 05.12.2025 i.e. the date when they surrendered in the Court of learned Special Judge.

3. Learned counsel, Mr. A. Jamatia for the petitioners submits that accused Sajahan Alom Laskar is the owner of the alleged vehicle and there is no material against him in the record, except the fact that he was the owner of the vehicle. Police has illegally showed him as absconder though he himself appeared before the learned Special Judge, Dhalai and prayed for release of the alleged vehicle on bail which was also allowed by the learned Special Judge and thereafter also on several occasions, he appeared before the learned Special Judge. Even the charge sheet also shows that after receiving notice under Section 67 of the NDPS Act, he appeared before the I.O. Therefore, he was never an absconder.

4. Regarding accused Saikul Islam, learned counsel submits that except the CDR analysis report of his mobile number that he had certain calls on the date of alleged incident with the driver, no other materials are there and therefore, bail may be granted to both of them.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=I1mmm2bl4r4EREhYK63Kv%2FLg3GBber9oxDRI0ZgzVWCWQKbDfLiLG9o9p%2FDH%2FxXu&caseno=BA/54/2026&cCode=1&cino=TRHC010004422026&state_code=20&appFlag=)

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