ORDER :

Gita Gopi, J.

1. Heard learned Advocate Mr. Darsh P.Desai on behalf of Advocate Mr. Rajesh B.Desai on behalf of the complainant and Mr. Hardik Mehta, learned APP for the respondent State.

2. On submission of learned advocate Ms. Sona Sagar for the applicant, the matter was placed today on top of the Board. However, when the matter was called out, learned advocate failed to appear.

3. Mr. Hardik Mehta, learned APP, has placed on record report of the police sub-inspector, Sector-7 Police Station, Gandhinagar. The report is supported by the statement and documents.

4. The prayer is made in the present application for anticipatory bail under section 438 of the Code of Criminal procedure by the applicant, who states himself to be a journalist and editor of daily newspaper at Dahod, and claims of running N.G.O. at Dahod. The applicant has also projected himself to be a person, who had worked with District Legal Aid Authorities and district judges at Dahod for imparting free legal aid to the needy, and has also placed on record the certificate and photographs.

4.1 It is the say of the applicant that on two occasions, he had been kidnapped and assaulted by the complainant, and in collusi