ORDER :

1. By this successive application filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the applicant is seeking release on regular bail in connection with the FIR being C.R.No.11210002220107 of 2022 registered with Sachin GIDC Police Station, District : Surat for the offences punishable under Sections 304, 336, 337, 338, 277, 278, 120 (B), 465, 467, 468, 471 of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 15 of the Environment Protection Act.

2. Heard learned Senior Advocate Mr. Jal Unwala for learned advocate Mr. Suraj A. Shukla for the applicant and learned APP Ms. Shruti Pathak for the respondent – State.

3. As per the FIR, on account of illegal discharge of hazardous chemical which was not discharged as per the protocol, six persons had died at Surat and in this illegal discharge of chemical, the present applicant is one of the accused person and hence, the present applicant was arrested on 07.01.2022. As per the charge- sheet, the role attributed to the present applicant is that the present applicant was instrumentally transferring the chemical from one tanker to another tanker. He was found in CCTV while transferring the chemical from one tanker to another tanker