The Rajasthan High Court administration has sought a report from its judicial branch after two purported judicial orders granting regular bail to an accused in an NDPS case surfaced on the court’s official website.
Discrepancies in the registration numbers and other order details have raised suspicions about their authenticity, a senior court official confirmed. However, the purported bail order was surprisingly available to view and download on the high court’s official website until Tuesday evening. The orders, dated October 15 and October 26, 2026, concern Kalvindra Singh Panesar, a 53-year-old Punjab resident arrested in connection with the alleged seizure of 8.061 kg of opium in Sri Ganganagar district. The case was registered at Rajiyasar police station under Sections 8/18, 25 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. A court staff member familiar with the matter said that criminal bail application registration numbers had reached only 15,047 in 2026 by Tuesday evening, whereas the purported October 26 order carried number 15,786. The registration number in the October 15 order further raised questions, as it was substantially higher than the number reportedly reached by the high court in criminal bail applications during the year. Additional advocate general Deepak Chaudhary also questioned the authenticity of the October 26 order, pointing out that A Sharma, named as the public prosecutor in it, was not currently serving as a public prosecutor at the high court.
Khilery said he was unaware of subsequent developments until a lawyer from Suratgarh informed him a day before that Panesar had allegedly been granted regular bail by the high court. Khilery said that Justice Chandra Shekhar Sharma was sitting in a division bench that day, and no single-bench cause list showing the matter was available. The details of the purported order raised suspicions, prompting him to contact the court staff of Justice Sharma’s single bench on Tuesday to verify its authenticity.
