JUDGMENT

S.K.SAHOO, J. - “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

- John Acton

The petitioner Rama Chandra Hansdah who is an elected member to the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 from Mayurbhanj Constituency in Odisha has filed this application under Section 439 Cr.P.C. seeking for bail in connection with RC. 50/S/2014-SCB/Kol. dated 26.6.2014 corresponding to SPE Case No.45 of 2014 pending in the Court of learned Special C.J.M., CBI, Bhubaneswar in which charge sheet has been submitted on 19.02.2015 under Section 120-B, 409 and 420 of Indian Penal Code and Sections 4, 5 and 6 of Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978.

The petitioner was taken into custody on 4.11.2014 and he was forwarded to Court on 5.11.2014 and he moved an application for bail before the learned Sessions Judge, Khurda at Bhubaneswar in Bail Application No.589 of 2014 which was rejected vide order dated 13.5.2015.

2. It reveals from the charge sheet that initially the case was registered at Nayapalli Police Station, Bhubaneswar on 27.05.2014 on the basis of First Information Report lodged by one Binaya Bhusan Das, son of Balaram Das, village-Pritipur, P.S.-Binjharpur, Dist-Jajp