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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR
MR. JUSTICE FARJAND ALI, J
Sukhanath S/o Dhanna Nath – Appellant
Versus
State Of Rajasthan, Through PP – Respondent
Order :
FARJAND ALI, J.
1. The instant criminal miscellaneous petition has been preferred on behalf of the petitioners for challenging the order dated 05.03.2025 passed by the learned Special Judge, NDPS Act Cases, District Bhilwara in Criminal Regular Case No.92/2025 (Sessions Case No.11/2025), whereby the application filed by them under Section 91 of the CrPC has been rejected.
2. Succinctly, stated the facts of the case are that the petitioners are facing a criminal trial for the offence punishable under Section 8/18 of the NDPS Act. During the course of trial, they preferred an application under Section 91 of the CrPC seeking an order to summon production of video footage of all the CCTV cameras installed at the Police Station Bigod, District Bhilwara from 09.00 p.m. of 04.02.2025 till 05.00 a.m. of 05.02.2025 and at the Police Station Kotadi, District Bhilwara from 02.00 a.m. of 05.02.2025 till 11.00 a.m. of that day. It is submitted that the aforesaid CCTV footage would be tendered into evidence for impeaching the credit of prosecution witnesses as well as to place contradiction in between the oral testimony and documents. It was averred in the application that the aforesaid doc
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