SRINAGAR : The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has granted bail to a man accused of possessing 11 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, ruling that the prosecution failed to establish that all seized bottles contained contraband. Justice Sanjay Dhar, in a judgment delivered on November 14, 2025, held that the case could not, at this stage, be treated as involving a commercial quantity under the NDPS Act because only one bottle had been chemically analysed. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

The petitioner, Javaid Ahmad Bhat, was arrested on July 14, 2024 at a police checkpoint in Srigufwara after allegedly attempting to flee in a Baleno vehicle. Police claimed that 11 bottles of Omrex-T, each labelled as containing Codeine Phosphate, were recovered from the

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