2023 (3) TMI 1323

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....Ms. Sheffaly Goyal, Advocate. For the Respondent : Mr. Rajiv Sidhu, DAG, Haryana. ******* DEEPAK SIBAL, J. (ORAL) The present petition has been filed under Section 439 Cr.P.C. for the grant of regular bail in Complaint No. CRM-2655/2021 dated 18.11.2021 registered under Section 132 of Haryana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and Central Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017 read with Section 20 ....

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....ven the charges have not yet been framed against the petitioner; 37 prosecution witness still remain to be examined at the pre-charge stage and therefore, if at all the petitioner is put to trial, the same will take a long time to conclude; even otherwise, the evidence collected by the prosecution is primarily documentary in nature; most of the material witnesses already stand examined at the pre-....

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.... year and 05 months; even if convicted, the maximum sentence which can be imposed on him is 05 years; most of the material witnesses for the prosecution, at the precharge stage, stand examined; the proceedings that the petitioner faces are presently at the pre-charge stage in which 37 prosecution witnesses still remain to be examined and that in case the petitioner is even put to trial, the same i....