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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.2495 OF 2023
@ Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 3552/2022
BHARWAD SANTOSHBHAI SONDABHAI APPELLANT
VERSUS
THE STATE OF GUJARAT & ANR. RESPONDENTS
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. The present appeal by way of special leave has been filed by the complainant who is
aggrieved by the order dated 18th February, 2022, passed by the learned Single Judge of the
High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in a Criminal Miscellaneous Application1 filed by the
respondent No.2 under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 19732, granting him
regular bail in connection with FIR No.I-CR No.11216008210400/20213, for the offence under
Sections 302 and 114 of the Indian Penal Code, 18604 read with Section 30 of the Arms Act
and Section 135 of the Gujarat Police Act.
3. The incident in question took place in the late hours of 17 th September, 2021, when as
per the complainant, respondent No.2 (accused No.2) along with accused No.1 were seated
together at the farm of the victim, namely, Parvinbhai and they had got into a heated argument.
In the course of the said argument, on the exhortation of the respondent No.2 (accused No.2),
1 Crl. Misc. Application No.23194/2021 2 for short ‘the Cr.P.C.’ 3 registered with Gandhinagar Sector-7, Police Station, Gandhinagar 4 in short ‘the IPC’
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accused No. 1 took o...