JUDGMENT

Suresh Kumar Kait, J. - The hearing has been conducted through video conferencing.

Crl.M(B)555/2021

1. The present application for bail has been preferred by the petitioner praying for his release due to Covid 19 pandemic and also since his application for regular bail is pending since the year 2018.

2. Learned counsel for petitioner points out that besides the afore-noted prayer, the ground on which petitioner has sought interim bail is that son of petitioner's elder brother, who is a physically challenged person, was admitted in ICU due to brain haemorrhage and his brother was unable to attend him in hospital, as his wife had given birth to their third child. Learned counsel submitted that parents of petitioner are old and aged and could not help them and in such circumstances, therefore, petitioner had sought interim bail. However, son of brother of petitioner could not survive.

3. Learned counsel insisted that in above critical circumstances, petitioner could not stand by his family and, therefore, his application for interim bail be allowed, keeping in view that his application for bail is pending consideration since 2018.

4. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor for State