ORDER :

1. The issue involved in both the cases are common and hence they are taken up together, heard and disposed of through this common order.

2. The petitioner has been arrayed as A1 in Crime No. 132 of 2019 (Crl. O.P. No. 18040 of 2020) and Crime No. 328 of 2019 (Crl. O.P. No. 14411 of 2020). The petitioner has several cases filed against him and he was in judicial custody in some other case. The respondent Police in both the cases effected a formal arrest through Prisoner on Transit Warrant (in short P.T. Warrant) on 03.04.2020 in Crl. O.P. No. 18040 of 2020 and on 11.05.2020 in Crl. O.P. No. 14411 of 2020, respectively. Even though the formal arrest took place on these two days, the petitioner was not immediately produced before the concerned Magistrate seeking for a remand in those cases.

3. Insofar as the case involved in Crl. O.P. No. 18040 of 2020 is concerned, the petitioner was produced before the Court below only on 26.06.2020 and similarly in Crl. O.P. No. 14411 of 2020, the petitioner was produced before the Court below only on 21.08.2020 and he was remanded in both the cases. Questioning this inordinate delay in producing the petitioner before the Court below and the