ORDER

05.09.2024 Date :

Heard Mr. S. Borthakur, learned counsel for the petitioners 1. Pranab Doley and 2. Rajib Pegu.

2. The petitioners have filed this application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 with prayer for pre-arrest bail as they are apprehending arrest in connection with Bokakhat Police Station Case No. 90/2024 registered under Sections 61(2)/196/308(2)/308(3)/329(4)/74/ 351(2) of Bharatiya Naya Sanhita, 2023.

3. Heard Mr. R.R. Kaushik, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam for the respondent State.

4. The allegation against the petitioners is that they have been instigating ethnic violence and they have been disrupting the construction of a project under the ATDC under the Hatikuli Tea Estate area and they have outraged the modesty of the victim and they have been involved in extortion. The victims are the local residents of the area where the construction of the ATDC project is going on.

5. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are indeed involved in a movement against the construction of the ATDC project but the other allegations against them are absolutely false and frivolous.

6. The learned Su