case was done on 28.02.2022 and the present applicant was arrested on 29.08.2022. It is submitted that the chats relied upon by the prosecution are not related to the recovery in question in the present case. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been in judicial custody since 29.08.2022 and has undergone incarceration of more than 2 years 7 months and charges in the present case have been framed vide order dated 21.02.2025 and prosecution has cited 18 witnesses and no one has been examined so far. 6. Per contra , learned SPP for the NCB submits that the present applicant along with Devender had booked the said parcel in which the alleged contraband in the present case was apprehended and immediately after the seizure, the present applicant alongwith other co-accused persons had destroyed their mobile phones and after their arrest, the data recovered from the mobile phones of the present applicant as well as from the other coaccused persons shows several chats regarding sending of parcels to Israel. It is submitted that during the extraction of mobile data, several images have been found on the mobile phone of the accused as well as the other co-accused persons showing that they were frequently sending messages to one-another about encrypted chats. It is also submitted that there were chats about the parcel between the co-accused persons. It is further submitted that during investigation, from the phone of the present applicant details of previous shipments, including a parcel sent to Yakib Dabas in 2021, were recovered. Additionally, photographs of the packed parcels and chats regarding the tracking ID between the applicant and the booking agent were also found on his phone. It is further submitted that the CDRs of the present applicant with other co-accused persons shows that they were in constant touch with each other.
