1. The petitioner is a charge sheeted accused in connection with RC/221/2012/E0001, dated 02.01.2012 pending in the court of learned Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Muzaffarpur. The petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India for a direction to the respondents to consider and count the period of custody of the petitioner in connection with the aforesaid case from 19.10.2012 i.e. the date of arrest of the petitioner in connection with some other case i.e. RC-221/2011/E/0001 and RC221/2011/E/0002 pending before the learned Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Ranchi or to count the period from the date the petitioner made prayer before the court of learned Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Muzaffarpur for production and remand in the present case i.e. on 04.01.2014 or to count the custody from the date on which the authorities of Birsa Munda Jail received the production warrant for production of the petitioner in the present case i.e. on 05.01.2014 or be counted from the date of filing of the charge sheet in the present case on 19.11.2013.

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