suffering from the symptoms relating to the COVID-19 virus, therefore, he could not surrender within time. After that for a considerable period of time, the courts were functioning online due to COVID-19 Pandemic and nobody was advised to go outside. The petitioner also suffered from the complications due to post COVID situations and became very weak. After the situation normalized, as the normal function of the courts resumed, the petitioner filed an application for extension of time for submission of his bail bond in terms of the anticipatory bail granted to him vide A.B.P. No.304 of 2021 but the same was rejected by the learned Sessions Judge, East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur solely on the ground that the same was filed after more than one year and ten months from the date of passing of the said order. It is submitted that the delay for the petitioner who signed in terms of the order passed by the Sessions Judge in the anticipatory bail application, occurred because of COVID-19 pandemic and post COVID-19 complications suffered by the petitioner but the learned Sessions Judge, East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur failed to consider the same and in a mechanical manner, without application of judicial mind, has rejected the same. Hence, it is submitted that the order dated 18.01.2023 passed by learned Sessions Judge, East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur in MCA No.2736 of 2022 arising out of A.B.P. No.304 of 2021 which is now pending before the learned Sessions Judge, East Singhbhum at Jamshedpur be quashed and set aside and the time period for the petitioner to surrender before the learned court below be extended.
