- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26993 CRL.P No. 10147 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 18TH DAY OF JULY, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S VISHWAJITH SHETTY CRIMINAL PETITION NO.10147 OF 2025 BETWEEN: 1. MR. VISHWANATH R. NAYAK S/O LATE RAMA NAYAK AGED ABOUT 81 YEARS R/AT #7-42, GURU KRIPA RAMA NAGARA, JUNIOR COLLEGE ROAD KUTHYAR ,BELTHANGADY D.K.-574 214. …PETITIONER (BY SMT. N. SHWETHA NAYAK, ADVOCATE FOR SRI. DHANANJAYA KUMAR, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA BY SUB-INSPECTOR OF POLICE BELTHANGADY POLICE STATION D.K. -574 214 REPRESENTED BY STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA BENGALURU-560 001. …RESPONDENT (BY SMT. RASHMI PATEL, HCGP) Digitally signed by H K HEMA Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26993 CRL.P No. 10147 of 2025 THIS CRIMINAL PETITION IS FILED UNDER SECTION 482 OF THE BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023, PRAYING TO RELEASE THE PETITIONER ON BAIL IN THE EVENT OF HIS ARREST IN CRIME NO.36/2025 REGISTERED BY THE BELTHANGADI POLICE STATION, ON THE FILE OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE, D.K., MANGALURU FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTION 9 OF KARNATAKA PROTECTION OF INTEREST DEPOSITORS EXORBITANT ACT, 2004, ETC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S VISHWAJITH SHETTY ORAL ORDER Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that inadvertently criminal petition is filed instead of filing an appeal as provided under the provisions of Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments Act, 2004. She submits that this petition may be dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to prefer an appeal as provided under law. 2. Submission is placed on record. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:26993 CRL.P No. 10147 of 2025 3. This petition is dismissed as not pressed with liberty as prayed for. 4. Registry is directed to return the certified copy of the documents to the learned counsel for the petitioner after retaining the Photostat copy of the same. Sd/- (S VISHWAJITH SHETTY) JUDGE VMB List No.: 1 Sl No.: 17