2025:CGHC:11478 NAFR Digitally signed by GOURI GOURI MUDALIAR MUDALIAR Date: HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR

2025.03.10

19:25:39 +0530 MCRC No. 1919 of 2025 Purushottam Sahu S/o Shri Amrit Lal Sahu Aged About 36 Years R/o Village- Chikhli, Out Post- Sonakhan, Thana- Kasdol, Distt.

Balodabazar-Bhatapara (C.G.) ... Applicant versus The State Of Chhattisgarh Through- Station House Officer, Police Out Post Sonakhan, Police Station - Kasdol, Distt. Balodabazar-Bhatapara (C.G.) ... Respondent For Applicant : Shri Rajendra Patel, Advocate.

For : Ms. Smriti Shrivastava, PL.

Respondent/State Hon'ble Mr. Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice

Order on Board

07/03/2025

1. This is the first bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the applicant who has been arrested in connection with Crime No. 104/2025 registered at Police Station Police Out Post-Sonakhan, Police Station Kasdol, District Balodabazar-Bhatapara (C.G.), for the offence punishable under Section 34(2) of the Chhattisgarh Excise Act.

2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 11/02/2025, the Police of Police Out Post-Sonakhan, Police Station Ka