Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 6: Justice Sanjay Dhar dismissed the petition of Khursheed Ahmed Kanna ARTO seeking bail in ACB raid case. While dismissing the bail application, Justice Dhar observed that the petitioner has approached this Court directly without exhausting the remedy before Special Judge and even if petitioner did approach the said Court, yet he abandoned the application midway without actually exhausting the said remedy as the petitioner withdrew the said application.
There are no exceptional circumstances in the case in hand which would entitle the petitioner to move the bail application directly before this Court. Justice Dhar further observed that apart from the above, since the Court of first instant i.e., Special Judge, Anticorruption, Baramulla, is already seized of the matter pertaining to grant of bail to co-accused, it will be appropriate if the bail application of the petitioner is also considered by the same Court along with bail application of the co-accused.
With these observations, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, High Court ordered that the petition be dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to approach the Court of Special Judge, Anticorruption, Baramulla, with an application for grant of bail, if he so desires. |
