Advocates:
['M/S SANTANU SARANGI', '', 'P K MOHANTY', 'S L CHOUDHURY', 'P PANDA']

BLAPL No.6189 of 2015

19.02.2016

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State.

The petitioner is in custody as an accused in 2(a) C.C. No.170(A) of 2010 on the file of

learned Sessions Judge, Cuttack registered under Section 20(b)(ii)(C) of the N.D.P.S. Act.

It has been alleged that while the petitioner along with two others were coming in a Car

, the Excise officials detained them on the way and on search 75 Kgs. of contraband Ganja was

seized from the vehicle.

It was submitted on behalf of the petitioner that while he was in custody, he was grante

d with interim bail and being an illiterate person, he could not know the implications and unk

nowingly defaulted in surrendering before the court after the interim bail period was over. It

was further submitted that during the said absence of the petitioner, the case against other

two co-accused persons was split up and being tried by the leaned 2nd Additional Sessions Judg

e, Cuttack, both the accused persons have been acquitted from the charge since the prosecution

case was disbelieved by the learned trial court. It was further submitted that since the peti

tioner defaulted