Patna : Patna High Court on Thursday rejected the regular bail plea of independent Mokama MLA Ananth Kumar Singh In connection with the alleged recovery of AK-47 rifles, ammunition and hand grenades from his private residence. Nadwani Village falling under Barh police station area of rural Patna.
Besides the rifle, 26 live cartridges loaded inside his magazine and two military-grenades hand grenades wrapped in carbon paper were recovered from inside his residential premises in a police raid on August 16, 2019.
Singh initially evaded arrest and surrendered before a metropolitan court in Delhi’s Saket on August 23, 2019.
Later he was brought to Patna. Since then he was behind bars in Beur Central Jail.
The strict Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was invoked in the FIR against him, but was dropped in the chargesheet.
The bail plea filed in June this year came up for hearing before a bench of Justice Anjani Kumar Sharan.
While rejecting the bail, the bench said Singh should support the trial court in concluding the matter early.
Advocate Ajay Kumar Thakur, appearing for the MLA, argued on Thursday that the trial in the matter is yet to be completed, despite the high court’s direction last year to complete it in nine months.
Thakur also said that the description of the place of recovery by the investigating officer during the hearing did not prove that it was Singh’s house.
Additional Public Prosecutor Ajay Mishra opposed Thakur’s arguments, saying all prosecution witnesses had testified in the trial last year within six months of the HC’s order.
He submitted that it is because of Singh that the trial is getting delayed as he is not appearing before the court to complete the process of Section 313 CrPC, where he has to explain the evidence brought against him in the trial. .
Mishra also said that Singh was repeatedly basing ailments like hearing problems and other issues to delay the hearing.
This is the second time that the high court has rejected Singh’s regular bail plea in the case. On June 11, 2020, a bench of Justice Prabhat Kumar Jha had rejected his bail with a direction to the trial court to conduct day-to-day hearing in the matter and conclude it within nine months.
Besides the rifle, 26 live cartridges loaded inside his magazine and two military-grenades hand grenades wrapped in carbon paper were recovered from inside his residential premises in a police raid on August 16, 2019.
Singh initially evaded arrest and surrendered before a metropolitan court in Delhi’s Saket on August 23, 2019.
Later he was brought to Patna. Since then he was behind bars in Beur Central Jail.
The strict Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was invoked in the FIR against him, but was dropped in the chargesheet.
The bail plea filed in June this year came up for hearing before a bench of Justice Anjani Kumar Sharan.
While rejecting the bail, the bench said Singh should support the trial court in concluding the matter early.
Advocate Ajay Kumar Thakur, appearing for the MLA, argued on Thursday that the trial in the matter is yet to be completed, despite the high court’s direction last year to complete it in nine months.
Thakur also said that the description of the place of recovery by the investigating officer during the hearing did not prove that it was Singh’s house.
Additional Public Prosecutor Ajay Mishra opposed Thakur’s arguments, saying all prosecution witnesses had testified in the trial last year within six months of the HC’s order.
He submitted that it is because of Singh that the trial is getting delayed as he is not appearing before the court to complete the process of Section 313 CrPC, where he has to explain the evidence brought against him in the trial. .
Mishra also said that Singh was repeatedly basing ailments like hearing problems and other issues to delay the hearing.
This is the second time that the high court has rejected Singh’s regular bail plea in the case. On June 11, 2020, a bench of Justice Prabhat Kumar Jha had rejected his bail with a direction to the trial court to conduct day-to-day hearing in the matter and conclude it within nine months.
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