ORDER :

RULE. Learned APP waives service of notice of Rule for and on behalf of the respondent No.1 – State of Gujarat.

1. By way of the present application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNSS”), the applicant has prayed for anticipatory bail in the event of arrest in connection with the FIR being C.R. No. 11214020250174 of 2025 registered with Kamrej Police Station, Surat Rural, for the offences punishable under Sections 303(1), 316(3), 316(4), 317(1), 317(2), 317(4), 318(3), 61(2)(a) and 54 of BNS.

2. Learned advocate for the applicant submits that the applicant has nothing to do with the offence. The applicant was not present at the scene of offence. He has been arraigned as an accused merely based on the statement of the accused No.5, who is driver, alleging that he was sent by the applicant with dumper containing low quality coal. In fact, the applicant is carrying out legal business of fire clay and he has sent the accused No.4 with the dumper along with invoice and deliver challan. It is alleged that when the raid was conducted by the police, at that time, driver of the applicant reached to the spot and upon interrogation, it was f