1.0 Present Criminal Miscellaneous Application under Section has been preferred by the applicant hereinoriginal complainant / affected society to quash and set aside the impugned order passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, FTC Court, No. 1, Vadodara passed in Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.489 of 2010 releasing respondent no.2 hereinoriginal accused on bail in connection with the FIR being CRI No. 192 of 2009 registered with the Karjan Police Station, Vadodara for the offences under Sections 408, 409, 420, 465, 467, 477(A) and 114 of the Indian Penal Code.
2.0 Shri B.S. Patel, learned advocate for the applicant, Shri Dabhi, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent State and Shri A.Y. Kogje, learned advocate for the respondent no.2original accused no.2. Shri Kogje, learned advocate for the respondent no.2 original accused has stated at the Bar that in view of the earlier order passed by this Court dated 24.4.2012 passed in Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.14349 of 2009 and other allied matters and considering the averment made in para 7 of the present application, he has no objection if the impugned order is quashed and set aside and the matter is remanded to the learned Sessions Court to decide and dispose of such application for bail afresh in accordance with law and on merits and after giving an opportunity to all concerned inclusive of applicant. However, has requested to continue the applicant on bail subject to ultimate outcome of the said application on remand and respondent no.2 to be treated as in formal judicial custody of the Court for the purpose of deciding the bail application as ordered earlier in other applications.
3.0 In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, present application succeeds and the impugned order dated 30.3.2010 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, FTC Court, No. 1, Vadodara passed in Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.489 of 2010 is hereby quashed and set aside and the matter is remanded to the learned Sessions Court for deciding the said bail application afresh in accordance with law and on merits after giving an opportunity to the learned advocate for the original accused, learned advocate for the original informant, Shri Indravadan Shah as well as learned advocate for the Vadodara District Cooperative Sugarcane Growers Union as well as learned Public Prosecutor and and till then the accused person is directed to be continued on bail subject to the ultimate outcome of the bail application to be decided by the learned Sessions Court on remand and he will be treated as in formal judicial custody of the Court for the purpose of deciding the bail applications. As agreed, learned advocates for the respective parties, more particularly, learned advocate for the original accused, learned Sessions Court to decide and dispose of the bail application in accordance with law and on merits afresh without in any way of being influenced by the fact that while quashing and setting aside the impugned order and remanding the matter to the learned Sessions Court for deciding the bail application afresh, the accused person is continued on bail and as agreed by the learned advocate appearing on behalf of the original accused, he shall not contend that as he is continued on bail the bail application is not required to be decided on merits.
4.0 In the facts and circumstances, it is directed that bail application on remand shall be decided and disposed of by the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Vadodara himself and in the facts and circumstances of the case, learned Principal Sessions Judge, Vadodara is hereby directed to finally decide and dispose of the bail application on remand as stated above within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the present order. In the facts and circumstances of the case and so as to avoid any further time in serving the notice upon the accused person and other, it is directed that the accused shall appear before the learned Sessions Court, Vadodara (learned Principal Sessions Judge, Vadodara) either in person or through their advocates on 29.10.2012 at the first instance. Rule is made absolute to the aforesaid extent in each of the applications. Registry is directed to send the writ of this order to the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Vadodara immediately but not later than 22nd October 2012.
“kaushik”
sd/ ( M. R. Shah, J. )