Chandigarh, June 8 -- A special court in Chandigarh on Friday dismissed the regular bail application of a 67-year-old man, accused of conspiring to plant narcotics in a lawyer's vehicle and implicate him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

The order was passed by judge Raman Goklaney against Khairati Lal in connection with the FIR registered in 2022 at Sector 11 police station under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (destruction of evidence), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and Section 20 (offences relating to cannabis/ganja) of the NDPS Act.

According to the prosecution, 1.365 kg of ganja was recovered from a Honda City car belonging to advocate Ashok Sehgal after the police control room got ...