JUDGMENT :

C.Praveen Kumar, J.

1. The Appellant herein, who is Accused No. 16, filed the present application under Section 21(4) of National Investigation Agency Act, 2008, [‘NIA Act’], assailing the Common Order, dated 25.08.2021, passed in Crl. M.P. No. 315 of 2021, wherein, the application filed by the Appellant seeking bail was dismissed.

2. The facts, which lead to filing of the present application, are as under:

i. On 15.11.2019, the Counter Intelligence Cell, Andhra Pradesh, received information that during the yeard 2011 to 2019 some unidentified foreign nationals entered into conspiracy with some persons in places like Visakhapatnam, Mumbai etc., to carry out anti-national activities in India. Money was transferred through various legal/illegal channels into bank accounts of certain unknown persons at Visakhapatnam and other places for recruiting agents to collect and transmit sensitive and classified information pertaining to vital defense installations in the country. In respect of the above, a case in Crime No. 1 of 2019 came to be registered on 16.11.2019 for the offences punishable under Sections 120B and 121A of Indian Penal Code [‘I.P.C.’], Sections 17 and 18 of Unlawfu