- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26772 CRL.P No. 9025 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 17TH DAY OF JULY, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S VISHWAJITH SHETTY CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 9025 OF 2025 BETWEEN: SRI SAROJ SUTAR S/O SANATANA SUTAR AGED ABOUT 33 YEARS OCC BUSINESS R/AT 69/10 MAHESHWARI NAGAR, RAMAKKA LAYOUT, MAHADEVAPURA POST BENGALURU - 560 084, PERMANENT ADDRESS, KUMARATANKA VILLAGE MALAPATNA POST, AUL P.S KENDRAPARA DISTRICT, ODISHA STATE. …PETITIONER (BY SRI SHIVAKUMARA K.S, ADV.) AND: STATE OF KARNATAKA BY CENTRAL CEN CRIME POLICE STATION, BENGALURU BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT BUILDING, BENGALURU - 560 001. …RESPONDENT (BY SRI RANGASWAMY R, HCGP) THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S 439 CR.P.C (U/S 483 BNSS) PRAYING TO ENLARGE HIM ON REGULAR BAIL, WHO IS ACCUSED NO.1/PETITIONER IN CR.NO.626/2024 REGISTERED BY CENTRAL CEN CRIME P.S., FOR THE OFFENCES P/U/S 316(2),318(2) OF BNS ACT, 2023, U/S 66(D) OF I.T ACT, 2008, PENDING BEFORE THE COURT OF XLV ACMM AT BENGALURU. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: Digitally signed by NANDINI M S Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26772 CRL.P No. 9025 of 2025 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S VISHWAJITH SHETTY ORAL ORDER 1. Accused no.1 in Crime No.626/2024 registered by Central CEN Crime Police Station, Bengaluru City, for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(2) of BNS, 2023 and Section 66(D) of Information Technology Act, 2000, is before this Court under Section 483 of BNSS, 2023, seeking regular bail. 2. Heard the learned Counsel for the parties. 3. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was arrested in the present case on 25.03.2025 and was remanded to custody on the very same day. Charge sheet has not been filed as on this date, and therefore, petitioner is entitled for statutory bail. 4. Learned HCGP does not dispute the aforesaid submission made by the learned Counsel for the petitioner. 5. In the present case, FIR has been registered for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(2) of BNS, 2023 and Section 66(D) of Information Technology Act, 2000, - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26772 CRL.P No. 9025 of 2025 and the material on record would go to show that petitioner who was arrested in the present case on 25.03.2025, was remanded to custody on the same day. Undisputedly, charge sheet has not been filed in the present case. Therefore, I am of the opinion that in view of Section 187(3) of BNSS, 2023, petitioner is entitled for statutory bail. Accordingly, the following order: 6. The petition is allowed. The petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail in Crime No.626/2024 registered by Central CEN Crime Police Station, Bengaluru City, for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(2) of BNS, 2023 and Section 66(D) of Information Technology Act, 2000, subject to the following conditions: a) Petitioner shall execute personal bond for a sum of Rs.1,00,000/- with two sureties, out of which one shall be local surety, for the likesum, to the satisfaction of the jurisdictional Court; b) The petitioner shall appear regularly on all the dates of hearing before the Trial Court unless the Trial Court exempts his appearance for valid reasons; - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26772 CRL.P No. 9025 of 2025 c) The petitioner shall not directly or indirectly threaten or tamper with the prosecution witnesses; d) The petitioner shall not involve in similar offences in future; e) The petitioner shall not leave the jurisdiction of the Trial Court without permission of the said Court until the case registered against him is disposed off. Sd/- (S VISHWAJITH SHETTY) JUDGE KK