Judgment :

Sanjeeb K Panigrahi, J.

1. The Petitioner has instituted the present Criminal Miscellaneous Case under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/ Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, invoking the inherent jurisdiction of this Court, to assail the order dated 19.02.2020 passed in C.T. Case No. 354(A) of 2014 corresponding to S.T. Case No. 67 of 2021, wherein a Non-Bailable Warrant was issued against Petitioner at the instance of the Investigating Officer.

I. FACTUAL MATRIX OF THE CASE

2. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

(i) On 24.08.2014 a Written Complaint was submitted by one Sudarsan Sahoo to the I.I.C., Athagarh P.S., alleging that while he was proceeding along Kandarpur road, he observed a large gathering of people gather at a particular spot and saw an unknown person was lying there, bleeding profusely due to an injury to his throat.

(ii) When the complainant enquired about the cause of the injury, the Victim disclosed his name and stated that 7 to 8 people had followed and restrained him and his helper while they were travelling to Kolkata after loading aluminum from Angul by truck.

(iii) Thereafter, the helper of the truck was kil