ORDER

1. This is an application challenging a proceeding being NGR (E)/148/2022 under Section 110 of the Code presently pending before the learned Special Executive Magistrate, Chandannagar Division, Chandannagar Police Commissionerate.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is an accused in several cases including ones under the N.D.P.S. Act and under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. He is in custody since 2017. There is no allegation whatsoever that he is operating any criminal activity from inside custody. In spite of this, in 2022 the present proceeding was instituted under Section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The petitioner is facing trial in some of the cases and in a few of the cases under the N.D.P.S Act, he is still in custody and he was produced from the Correctional Home therein for that purpose. By an order dated 16.02.2022, the learned Executive Magistrate directed the petitioner to submit show-cause as to why he shall not be bound down for good behaviour bond under Section 110 of the Code and should furnish an amount of Rs. 1,00,000/- each with two reputed Gazetted Officers as sureties for his good beha