ORDER :

1. Rule returnable forthwith. Mr. Hardik Soni, the learned APP waives service of notice of rule for and on behalf of the respondent-State.

2. By way of the present application under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the applicant-original accused has prayed to release him on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest in connection with the FIR registered at the Chalala Police Station, Amreli being No. 11193013230300 of 2023 for the offence punishable under Sections 406, 420 and 114 of the IPC.

3. The learned advocate Mr. Virat Popat appearing on behalf of the applicant has submitted that it is alleged in the complaint that a sale-deed was duly executed between the present applicant-accused and the erstwhile owner of the land somewhere in the year 2016 and some of the amount of sale consideration as mentioned in the sale-deed has yet not been paid by the applicant-accused and with these kind of allegations, the present complaint has been registered after a lapse of seven years. Learned advocate Mr. Popat has further submitted that the present complaint is nothing but a sheer abuse of process of law filed just with a view to harass the present applicant-accu