JUDGMENT/ORDER

KRISHNA S.DIXIT, J. - This appeal by the accused seeks to lay a challenge to the order dtd. 19/11/2022 (Annexure-A) rendered by the learned XIX Addl. City Civil & Session Judge (Special Court for NIA cases) at Bangalore, whereby his regular bail petition filed u/s 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereafter 1973 Code) in Spl.C.C.No.141/2021, has been negatived, for the second time.

2. After service of notice, the respondent-National Investigating Agency (hereafter NIA) has entered appearance through its Senior Special Public Prosecutor, who vociferously opposed the appeal making submission in justification of the impugned order and the reasons on which it has been constructed.

3. BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE: (i) On the eventful night of 11/8/2020, riots broke out in the K.G.Halli area of Bangalore City; the miscreants had attacked the local police station and had set it on fire; there was extensive damage to the private & public property; the government & private vehicles were ransacked; members of the public were terrorized; police officials who could have run for saving their lives & limbs, held the ground despite being attacked with stones, iron rods, wooden sti