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Granting bail to an Australian architect arrested by the NCB, a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act court on Thursday held that, at this stage, his WhatsApp messages with a co-accused are not substantial and sufficient to hold that he was a drug peddler.
“In the absence of any substantial material, taking into account the fact that no contraband material was found from the accused, and except for the statement of co-accused and WhatsApp messages, there is no substantial material to treat the accused as a peddler or supplier of drugs, it may not be justified to refuse to extend the concession of bail,” special judge H S Satbhai said.

The court further said that in case, in the future, cogent material is collected by the NCB, demonstrating Bartels’s role as a peddler or supplier of drugs, then the scenario would be different. “The fact that the NCB, after arrest of the accused, on his production before the metropolitan magistrate, did not ask fo

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