Page No.# 1/3 GAHC040017392025 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) (ITANAGAR BENCH) Case No. : AB/156/2025 Raju Baruah Son of Pradip Baruah, resident of Village Natun Mising Gaon, No.2 Silapathar Block, PO and PS Silapathar, Dhemaji District, Assam. VERSUS The State of AP represented by the PP of AP Advocate for the Petitioner : R K Pradhan, Advocate for the Respondent : P P of AP, Page No.# 2/3 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRANJAL DAS O R D E R 07.11.2025 Heard Mr. L. Taj, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Mr. S.K. Deori, learned counsel for the applicant. Also heard Ms. L. Hage, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State respondent. 2. By filing this application under Section 482 of BNSS, 2023, the accused/applicant seeks for privilege of pre-arrest bail in connection with Taliha P.S. Case No. 09/2025, under Section 318(4)/316(2) of the BNS, 2023. 3. The instant case arose out of an FIR dated 04.08.25. The gist of the allegation is that the FIR named accused representing himself to be owner of one excavator entered into an agreement for the same, whereby, he received of Rs.18,00,000/- and later, the alleged victim came to know that the said equipment belongs to someone else. The present petitioner is not named in the FIR. 4. Vide order dated 22.10.2025, the petitioner was granted interim pre-arrest bail. 5. It is submitted by the learned Additional P.P. that the case diary has been received and pursuant to grant of interim pre-arrest bail, the petitioner has rendered co-operation to the investigation and has appeared before the I/O and his statement has also been recorded. 6. The case diary is produced before me. Perused the relevant portions of the Page No.# 3/3 case diary. I have also perused the statement of the petitioner. 7. In these circumstances, I deem it not necessary to cancel the interim pre- arrest bail. Therefore, the interim pre-arrest bail order dated 22.10.2025 is hereby made absolute, with the following conditions:- (i) that the applicant/petitioner shall co-operate with the remaining part of the investigation; (ii) that the applicant/petitioner shall not hamper or tamper with the evidence. 8. Send back the case diary. JUDGE Comparing Assistant