Abdulkalamasatha v. The State Rep.By

Crl.O.P.No.612 of 2024 C.V.KARTHIKEYAN,J.

The petitioner/A6 in Crime No.312 of 2023, registered by the respondent for the offences under Sections 147, 148, 120(B), 427 of IPC and Section 3 of Explosive Substances Act r/w Section 149 of IPC, seeks bail. The petitioner had been remanded to judicial custody on 28.11.2023. 2.The learned counsel for the petitioner stated that one of the co-accused namely A8 had been granted bail by the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Puducherry, in Crl.M.P.No.395 of 2024 by order dated 25.01.2024. 3.A counter affidavit has been filed by the respondent, wherein it had been stated that all the accused namely A1 to A8 had formed themselves into unlawfully assembly and had thrown country bombs in the front shutter of the wine shop and caused blast and damages to the shutter of the shop. 4.It is stated that during the course of investigation, broken glass pieces, thread and cracker brown papers and pebbles had been recovered and the same 1/3

had been forwarded for further forensic examination. It had been stated that three country made bombs had been prepared and the accused tested two of them.

5.In view of the seriousness and nature of the offence particularly, the usage of country made bomb and also the possibility that there would be several other country made bombs similarly prepared by the accused or the knowledge of how to prepare would have been passed over to other persons, at this stage, even though the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Puducherry had granted bail to A8, since the petitioner has been specifically named in the counter affidavit as a person who was the part of the unlawful assembly, I am not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, this Criminal Original Petition is dismissed.

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