1 2025:CGHC:20743 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRCA No. 645 of 2025 1 - Gajanand Rathore S/o Late Gaurishankar Rathore Aged About 34 Years R/o Qtr. No. S.F.- 665, C.S.E.B. Colony, Korba, Tahsil And District Korba, Chhattisgarh. ... Applicant versus 1 - Vimal Kumar S/o Shri Narayan Prasad Agrawal Aged About 43 Years R/o Agrasen Chowk, Sakti, Tahsil Sakti, District Janjgir- Champa, Chhattisgarh. (Now District Sakti) ... Non-applicant For Applicant : Mr. Pushpendra Kumar Patel and Mr. Dashrath Kushwaha, Advocate For Non-applicant : None. Hon'ble Mr. Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Order on Board 06.05.2025 1. This first anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed by the applicant, who is apprehending his arrest in connection with Criminal Appeal No.71/2024 pending before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sakti (C.G.) VAISHALI LUCKY NAGARIA Digitally signed by VAISHALI LUCKY NAGARIA Date: 2025.05.09 11:07:22 +0530 2 2. Mr. U.K.S. Chandel, learned Deputy A.G., submits that though the State is not a party in this case but the present anticipatory bail application is found maintainable, as the applicant was convicted by the trial Court against which he has preferred an appeal and absconded, the present bail application is not maintainable and the remedy which is most available to the applicant is as per provisions of Section 72 of the BNSS. 3. In view of the above, the present anticipatory bail application is dismissed as not maintainable. Sd/- (Ramesh Sinha) CHIEF JUSTICE vaishali