ITEM NO.10 COURT NO.12 SECTION II-C S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 8669/2022
(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 28-06-2022 in CRLOP No. 6307/2022 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras)
MOHAMMED SADIQ BASHA Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER,
NARCOTICS CONTROL BUREAU Respondent(s)
Date : 10-01-2023 This petition was called on for hearing today.
CORAM :
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE A.S. BOPANNA
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.T. RAVIKUMAR
For Petitioner(s) Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv.
Mr. G. Murugenderan, Adv.
Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR
For Respondent(s) Mr. Vikramjeet Banerjee, A.S.G.
Mr. Rajan Kumar Chourasia, Adv.
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Adv.
Mr. K Parameshwaran, Adv.
Mrs. Deepabali Dutta, Adv.
Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner as also the learned Additional Solicitor General for the respondent and perused the petition papers.
Though the learned ASG has made a detailed reference to the objection statement to point out that the petitioner is
1 SLP (Crl.)No. 8669/2022 likely to be a `flight risk if released on bail, among the other objections, it is noted that the petitioner was arrested on 27.04.2018 and he has been in custody for more than 4 years and 8 months. Further the trial though is under progress is not likely to conclude immediately.
In that view, keeping all this aspects in view, we deem it appropriate to release the petitioner on bail subject to the conditions being imposed by the trial court which among others shall also include to bind the petitioner to deposit the passport and also report to such Competent Authority/Station
House Officer that the trial court may determine . The petitioner
shall be produced before the trial court immediately for
compliance of this order.
The special leave petition is, accordingly, disposed of.
Pending application(s) shall also stand disposed of.
(RAJNI MUKHI) (DIPTI KHURANA)
COURT MASTER (SH) ASSISTANT REGISTRAR
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