Paresh Upadhyay, J.

This is an application for anticipatory bail.

2. The applicant apprehends his arrest in connection with FIR being CR-I No. 48 of 2016 registered with the DCB Police Station, Ahmedabad, for the offences punishable under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(2)(5) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocity) Act, 1989. The applicant is a Police Inspector, who at the relevant time was working under the Ahmedabad Police Commissionerate and the deceased was his Police Constable.

3. Learned advocate for the applicant has submitted that, the applicant is a Police Inspector and the deceased was a Police Constable working under him. He has taken this Court through the narration in the complaint line-by-line, the time gap between the occurrence and filing of FIR, the sickness/tendency on the part of the deceased of frustration/depression, which led to his unfortunate death. He has extensively referred to and taken this Court through the material on record to contend that, under no circumstances, the applicant could be said to have abetted the suicide committed by the Constable. It is submitted that, this applicatio