ORDER :

SLP (Crl.) No. 16025/2023

It is submitted that during the pendency of the application, the petitioner was arrested. In such circumstances, this application has become infructuous. The Special Leave Petition stands dismissed as having become infructuous.

However, it will be open to the petitioner to avail remedy available in the said circumstances by moving appropriate application.

SLP (Crl) No. 16047/2023

1. This Court held and reiterated that decisions on anticipatory bail applications/bail applications, are concerned with the liberty and therefore, shall be taken up and disposed of, expeditiously. On 21.02.2022 in SLP (Crl) No. 1247/2022, a Bench of three Judges of this Court reiterated the same view. Virtually, this Court deprecated the practice of admitting the bail applications and thereafter deferring decisions on it unduly. The case on hand reveals recurrence of such a situation despite the repeated pronouncements of this Court on the very issue. In the case on hand, the petitioner who is accused No. 1 in F.I.R. No. 218/2023 of Police Station Vidhan Sabha, Raipur, Chhattisgarh registered under Section 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Later, Section