Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010229712025 2025:GAU-AS:14886 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : AB/2462/2025 MD FORHAD ALI AND ANR SON OF - MD. ABDUL MANNAN, R/O - VILLAGE - SHIMLABARI PART - II, P.S. - MERERCHAR, DISTRICT - BONGAIGAON, ASSAM PIN NO. - 783384 2: MD ABDUL MANNAN ALIAS MANNAN ALI SON OF - LT. NASIM UDDIN R/O - VILLAGE - SHIMLABARI PART - II P.S. - MERERCHAR DISTRICT - BONGAIGAON ASSAM PIN NO. - 78338 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REPRESENTED HEREIN BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : MR G CHAMUAH, Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM, BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJAN MONI KALITA ORDER Date : 17-11-2025 Heard Mr. G. Chamuah, learned counsel for the accused applicants. Also heard Mr. P. S. Lahkar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the Page No.# 2/3 State. 2. This is an application filed under Section 482 BNSS, 2023 for granting pre-arrest bail to the accused applicants in connection with Mererchar P.S. Case No.41/2025, registered under Section 105/3(5) BNS. 3. The gist of the case as has been narrated in the FIR dated 08.10.2025 is that at about 7:00 PM, the accused persons, namely, Farhad Ali, Mannat Ali and Saiful Islam put some wires surrounding their paddy field and thereafter, put electrical currents in those wires so that animal cannot enter into the paddy field. However, brother of the informant while passing through the area got electrocuted and while trying to the save the brother of the informant, 2(two) other persons also got injured. The brother of the informant was taken to the hospital and subsequently, he died in the hospital. 4. Vide an order dated 17.10.2025, this Court has already granted interim pre-arrest to the accused applicants in connection with the case. 5. The learned counsel for the accused applicants submits that in terms of the said order dated 17.10.2025, the accused applicants have already appeared before the Investigating Officer and got their statements recorded. In view of the aforesaid, he submits that since the accused applicants are cooperating with the investigation and their statements have been recorded, the interim pre-arrest order so passed by this Court should be made absolute. Page No.# 3/3 6. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor submits that accused applicants have already appeared before the Investigating Officer and cooperating with the investigation. However, since a person died due to negligence of the accused applicants, bail should not be granted, at this stage. 7. After due consideration, this Court is of the view that this case merits the interim order so passed on 17.10.2025, to be made absolute. The interim order dated 17.10.2025 is hereby made absolute. 8. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail application is disposed of as allowed. JUDGE Comparing Assistant