2024 (9) TMI 1785

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.... Mr. K. V. Saste, Addl. P.P. for the Respondent - State. Mr. Jitendra B. Mishra a/w Mr. Satyaprakash Sharma, Mr. Ashutosh Mishra, Mr. Rupesh Dubey, Mr. Saket Katkar and Harpreet Kaur Sethi, for the Respondent Nos. 1 to 3. P. C. : Vide order dated 10th May, 2024, we have granted interim bail to the petitioner pending the hearing and final disposal of the aforesaid petition, on certain term....

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....onsidering the conflicting stand taken by the respondent No. 2 in their affidavit filed in this Court and their reply filed before the trial Court. It is also pertinent to note that the GST investigation of the Company was done, sometime in 2021 and that the petitioner had appeared before the authorities on behalf of the said Company. It also appears that a full-fledged inquiry was done in 2021 an....

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....the petitioner. It is not as if, the petitioner had not cooperated with the authorities and as such, it was well within the powers of the respondent No. 2 to call him on some other day or even on the next day. We deprecate the practice of keeping a person overnight under the guise of recording of his statement, irrespective of whether the person volunteered or not. Arrest is a serious mat....