JUDGMENT

S. K. Panigrahi, J. - The present petitioner has filed the instant Anticipatory Bail application under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. corresponding to Burla P.S. Case No.251 of 2021 pending in the Court of the learned S.D.J.M, Sambalpur. The petitioner herein has been accused in connection with alleged commission of offences punishable under Section 306 read with Section 34 of the I.P.C. Prior to the present Application, the petitioner approached the court of the learned Sessions Judge, Sambalpur in ABLAPL No.81 of 2021, wherein vide order dated 24.05.2021, the learned Sessions Judge rejected the said pre-arrest bail petition.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the facts of the present case are that the deceased one Mr. Dinabandhu Mishra was serving as a Technical Assistant (Computer) on contractual basis at Sambalpur University for about 27 years. The petitioner herein was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Sambalpur University on 25.01.2021 and has been discharging his duties and responsibility since then. On 20.04.2021, the deceased wrote a letter to Registrar, Sambalpur University wherein he stated that the petitioner had called him on 15.04.2021 to question him regarding leaking