Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010014862025 2025:GAU-AS:2219 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : AB/173/2025 RANA BARUAH S/O RATNA BARUAH R/O 1 NO. DAULASHAL P.S.MUKALMUA DIST. NALBARI, ASSAM PIN CODE-781312 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REP BY THE PP, ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. S NATH, MR P K KALITA,MS. J GHOSH Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM, Page No.# 2/3 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE MANASH RANJAN PATHAK 04/03/2025 Heard Mr. S Nath, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. K K Parashar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam for the State respondent. 2. The petitioner, namely, Sri Rana Baruah, son of Ratna Baruah, resident of 1 No. Daulashal, P.S. Mukalmua, District-Nalbari, has filed this application on 27.01.2025 under Section 482 BNSS, 2023, seeking pre-arrest bail apprehending his arrest in Tinsukia P.S. Case No. 439/2024 registered under Sections 61(2)/316(2)/318(4)/336(3)/340(2) BNS. 3. The petitioner alleged that the informant is the main culprit, who has dealt with one accused Jitendra Verma and has handed over the bank draft amounting to Rs. 70,00,000/- of the EJJ Construction Company, Chennai to said Verma and only to save himself, he has now lodged the FIR of the case. 4. It is submitted by the petitioner that nothing has been recovered from his possession except certain photo copies of cheques and other documents. He also stated that no bank transaction took place with his bank account pertaining to any share of said Rs.70,00,000/- involved in this case. As such, he has prayed for his pre-arrest bail in said Tinsukia P.S. Case No. 439/2024. 5. From the FIR of the case as well as the case diary, it can be seen that it is the present petitioner, who first disclosed that there are certain contracts of Forest Department, Arunachal Pradesh and he himself stated that he has close contact with high officials of the said department. As the informant’s company was interested for obtaining certain contracts from the Forest Department of Arunachal Pradesh so as to look after certain plantations in the Forest Department of Arunachal Pradesh, the petitioner led the informant and the official of informant’s company to Dibrugarh and it is the petitioner who informed the concerned officials of the informant’s company as well as the informant about the date and venue of the meeting to be held with the officials of the Forest Department of Arunachal Pradesh stating that the Chief Conservator of Forest, Arunachal Pradesh shall attend the said meeting. 6. Case diary also discloses that it is the petitioner who informed the official of the informant’s company as well as the informant that along with their applications, they have to deposit Page No.# 3/3 Rs.70,00,000/- by way of bank draft and it is the petitioner who brought one person as an officer of the Forest Department of Arunachal Pradesh. 7. Finding sufficient incriminating materials in the case diary against the petitioner with regard to his involvement in the alleged crime, the Court is of the view that it is not a fit case to grant pre- arrest bail to the petitioner, Sri Rana Baruah in said Tinsukia P.S. Case No. 439/2024. 8. Accordingly, this pre-arrest bail application of the petitioner, Sri Rana Baruah, son of Ratna Baruah, in said Tinsukia P.S. Case No. 439/2024 stands rejected. 9. Return the case diary. JUDGE Comparing Assistant