ORDER

These bail applications are filed under section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’).

2. Petitioner is the accused in various crimes registered in different police stations in the State. The offences alleged against the petitioner in all these cases are almost identical and it includes those under Section 420 r/w Section 3 4 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘ IPC ’), apart from Section 3 r/w Section 21(1)(2)(3), Section 5 r/w Section 23 of the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019 (for short, ‘BUDS Act’). In some of the cases the offences alleged are under Sections 3 16(2), 318(2), 318(4) r/w Section 3 (5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) also.

3. The allegations in all these crimes are also almost similar. The prosecution alleges that the accused, with an intent to cheat the respective defacto complainants, induced them to deposit large amounts of money by promising to supply various articles at half the actual market value, and thereafter, failed to provide the said articles or return the amounts collected from the individual complainants and thereby cheated them and committed the offences alleged.

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