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HC grants bail to foreign national after 4 years in drug case
The Daily Guardian
|September 30, 2025
The Delhi High Court has recently granted regular bail to a foreign national in a drug trafficking case after a period of over 4 years of custody.
He was detained at Indira Gandhi Airport in 2021, and 10 kg of heroin was allegedly recovered by customs officials.
Justice Arun Monga granted bail to Quentin Decon after considering the submissions of counsel and the fact of the long incarceration of the accused since June 2021.
"Not only the applicant has undergone inordinate incarceration since June 27, 2021 (4 years and 3 months), but even otherwise, given the snail's pace of the proceedings in the learned Trial Court, it may so happen that before the same concludes, the applicant may end up undergoing the entire sentence without being held guilty," justice Monga said in the order passed on September 25.
This story is from the September 30, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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