R/CR.MA/7803/2025 ORDER DATED: 22/04/2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION (FOR ANTICIPATORY BAIL) NO. 7803 of 2025 ========================================================== SHETH CHIRAG PRADIPKUMAR Versus STATE OF GUJARAT ========================================================== Appearance: MR DHRUVIN U MEHTA(9993) for the Applicant(s) No. 1 MR HK PATEL, APP for the Respondent(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HASMUKH D. SUTHAR Date : 22/04/2025 ORAL ORDER RULE. Learned APP waives service of notice of Rule for and on behalf of respondent – State of Gujarat. Learned APP upon instructions has submitted that though notice under section 35 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNSS”) is served, the applicant has not joined the investigation. Upon instructions, learned advocate for the applicant states that applicant is ready and willing to join the investigation on 24.04.2025. If the applicant so appears, the Investigating OfÏcer is directed to scrupulously follow the proposition of law as settled by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar reported in (2014)8 SCC 273; Satender Kumar Antil v. Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr. reported in (2022)10 SCC 51 and Md. Asfak Alam vs. State of Jharkhand and Another reported in 2023 SCC OnLine SC 892 and even the learned Magistrate before mechanically authorizing the detention of applicant shall follow the dictum of Hon’ble Supreme Court in the aforesaid decisions. With aforesaid direction, present application is disposed of. Rule is discharged. (HASMUKH D. SUTHAR, J.) Ajay Original copy of this order has been signed by the Hon'ble Judge. Digitally signed by: AJAY CHANDRAN MENON(HC00939), PRINCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY, at High Court of Gujarat on 22/04/2025 14:29:26