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2025:GAU-AS:13700
THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : Bail Appln./3120/2025 SRI RANJIT TAYUNG S/O SRI ADIRAM TAYUNG R/O KHABOLI POMUWA, PO SHALMORA PS PANIGAON, DISTRICT- LAKHIMPUR ASSAM, PIN- 787052 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REP BY THE PP ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : A K GOGOI, M AHMED,A GOGOI Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM,
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BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJAN MONI KALITA ORDER 14.10.2025 Heard Mr. A K Gogoi, learned counsel for the accused applicant and Mr. B Sharma, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam for the State. 2. This is an application under Section 483 BNSS, 2023 for grant of bail to the accused applicant, namely, Sri Ranjit Tayung, in connection with Cyber Police Station Panbazar Case No. 11/2025 under Sections 316(2)/318(4)/336(3)/61 of BNS,
2023. 3. The gist of the case as has been narrated in the FIR are that the informant, namely, Krishna Nath while was working as an Assistant in T. R. Pharmacy owned by the accused applicant, the accused applicant along with another person, namely, Dipankar Das collected his documents in the pretext of opening salary account in the IndusInd Bank, Ulubari Branch. However, when the informant received notice from the Bangalore Police, he came to know that the aforesaid bank account in the IndusInd Bank, Ulubari Branch was, in fact, opened in the name of N. K. Trading with Account No. 201029732800, IFSC Code-INDB0000038 using his documents and thereby, the accused applicant along with aforesaid Dipankar Das committed certain fraudulent transactions. The informant also alleged that additionally certain other current accounts were also opened in the name of Jagat Nath Das, Roshan Magar and Sameer and those accounts were also operated by the accused applicant along with aforesaid Dipankar Das. 4. After receipt of the FIR, the investigating authority registered the Cyber Police Station Panbazar Case No. 11/2025 under Sections 316(2)/318(4)/336(3)/61 of BNS, 2023 and thereafter, during investigation, the mobile phones of the informant along with certain passbooks were also seized from the accused applicant. Page No.# 3/4
5. It was also stated in the FIR that the informant has appeared before the Bangalore Police after receipt of the notice from the Bangalore Police. 6.
Learned counsel for the accused applicant submits that the accused applicant is no way connected with the aforesaid N. K. Traders and he does not have knowledge of any such fraudulent transactions committed through the aforesaid account. He submits that the accused applicant is involved in pharmaceutical business and owns an agency, namely, T. R. Pharmacy and the informant was earlier working with him and he left his job more than a year back. He further submits that since he is involved in pharmaceutical business, he has many accounts and police have recovered those passbooks which does not have any connection with the alleged current account in the name of N. K. Traders. 7. Whereas, the learned APP, Assam appearing for the State submits that there are incriminating materials against the accused applicant, which reveal his involvement in such cyber fraudulent activities. He further submits that during the investigation, the investigating authority has seized more than 19 passbooks of different banks in different names, 11 ATM cards and 15 Cheque Books of different banks. 8. In view of the aforesaid materials that have been found available in the case diary, learned APP, Assam submits that this is not a fit case wherein bail should be granted to the accused applicant. 9. This Court has gone through the case diary as well as heard the submissions made on behalf of the accused applicant as well as the State respondent. 10. After taking the materials in it’s entirety and looking into the mechanism of the alleged commission of fraudulent activities, this Court is of the considered opinion that this is not a fit case wherein the accused applicant should be released on bail. 11.
It is also seen that the investigation is still going on and this Court is of the view that in case of cyber fraudulent activities, the time that may be required for
Page No.# 4/4 investigation is little bit more than usual investigation and therefore, bail application of the accused applicant is rejected. 12. Accordingly, this bail application stands disposed of. 13. Return the case diary. JUDGE Comparing Assistant