High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/30826/2022allowed

Sadam @ Sonu @ Mota v. State Of Haryana

2022-12-06Mr. Justice Pankaj Jain7 pages

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# $ % % CRM-M No.51681-2022 has argued that report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. stands filed with the Court on 12.07.2022 without FSL report. This renders the challan incomplete and thus the petitioner is entitled for default bail under Section 167(2) Cr.P.C. Reliance has been placed upon Division Bench judgment of this Court rendered in Ajit Singh @ Jeeta & anr. Vs.

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State of Punjab passed in CRR-4659-2015 decided on 30.11.2018. She submits that default bail was filed by the petitioner on 03.10.2022. Extension of time under Section 36-A(4) of the NDPS Act has been sought by the prosecution vide application dated 06.10.2022 i.e. after the institution of bail application filed by the petitioner. Thus the same cannot have an effect of defeating indefeasible right of the petitioner to seek default bail under Section 167(2) Cr.P.C. which has its genesis in Article 21 of the Constitution of India as held by Apex Court in M.Ravindran Vs. The Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, 2021(2) SCC

485. She relies upon Harpreet Singh @ Rubi Vs. State of Haryana, passed in CRR-217-2022 decided on 31.10.2022, Richhpal @ Ganga & anr. Vs. State of Haryana passed in CRR-1971-2022 decided on 29.10.2022, Randeep Singh @ Kali Vs. State of Haryana passed in CRR-1966-2022 decided on 29.10.2022, Gurpreet Singh @ Gopi @ Gurpartap Singh Vs. State of Punjab passed in CRM-M-20708-2022 decided on 21.10.2022, Hajinder @ Gora Vs. State of Haryana passed in CRR-616-2021 decided on 18.10.2022, Vijay Pal Vs. State of Haryana passed in CRR-48-2021 decided on 05.05.2022, Sayed Mohd. Ahmed Kazmi Vs. State, GNCTD & ors. passed in CR Appeal No.1695-1697 of 2012 decided on 19.10.2012 and Jigar @ Jimmy Pravinchandra Adatiya Vs. State of Gujarat 2022 AIR (Supreme Court) 4641.

Per contra learned State counsel is not in a position to controvert the aforesaid factual assertions made by counsels representing the petitioner. However, he submits that absence of FSL report will not

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render report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. incomplete. He further asserts that there is no challenge to the order passed under Section 36-A(4) of the NDPS Act dated 06.10.2022 and thus present application filed under Section 167

(2) Cr.P.C. cannot be sustained till the order dated 06.10.2022 passed under Section 36-A(4) of the NDPS Act is in existence. However, he does not dispute that vide order dated 06.10.2022 the time has been extended beyond 180 days only after the application filed by the petitioner seeking default bail was filed.

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2)) 3*% 3%*4) 4 -*4*- )3 % * (i) The petitioner shall not mis-use the liberty granted. (ii) The petitioner shall not tamper with any evidence oral or documentary during the trial.

(iii) The petitioner shall not absent himself on any date before the trial.

(iv) The petitioner shall not commit any offence similar to the one alleged in the present case.

(v) The petitioner shall deposit his passport, if any with the trial Court.

(vi) The petitioner shall give his cellphone number to the police authorities and shall not change his cell-phone number without permission of the trial Court.

(vii) The petitioner shall not in any manner try to delay the trial. >))4 * * * )*# )

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