Vijay Kumar Gupta v. State of U.P. and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court (Rajeev Misra, J.; order dated 6.5.2022) rejected Vijay Kumar Gupta's anticipatory bail application under Section 438 Cr.P.C. in Case Crime No. 36 of 2022, Sections 379/411/414 IPC, Police Station Ahraura, District Mirzapur. Applicant not named in the FIR but implicated on the inculpatory statement of co-accused Neeraj Kesri; Court relied on P. Chidambaram v. Directorate of Enforcement, AIR 2019 SC 4198 and found no exceptional ground to exercise its Section 438 discretion.
What did the court decide?
Having heard learned counsel for the parties, and upon perusal of the material on record, the complicity of the accused, and the judgment of the Apex Court in P. Chidambaram, the Court does not find any exceptional ground to exercise its discretionary jurisdiction under Section 438 Cr.P.C. ¶8