HANY BANU vs NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY AND ANR.

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KSG APEALST-12301-24.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL (ST) NO. 12301 OF 2024 Hany Babu Aged about :- 54 years, Otherwise R/o, C 2102, Hyde Park, Sector 78, Noida, U.P. 201304 Currently incarcerated as, UTP M.B. 271 at, Taloja Central Prison, Navi Mumbai … Appellant V/s. 1) National Investigation Agency (FIR No.1 of 2020) … Respondent No.1 2) State of Maharashtra … Respondent No.2 _______________________________________ Dr.Yug Mohit Chaudhry with Mr.Anush Shetty for the Appellant. Mr.Anil C. Singh, Additional Solicitor General of India a/w Mr.Chintan Shah, Mr.Sandeep Sadawarte, Mr.Adarsh Vyas, Ms.Rma Gupta, Mr.Krishnakant Deshmukh and Mr.Rajdatt Nagre for Respondent No.1- NIA. Mr.Ajay Patil, A.P.P. for the Respondent No.2- State. Mr.Pravin Ingawale, SP, NIA Mumbai present. Mr.Vishal Gaikwad, Dy.SP, NIA, Mumbai present. _______________________________________ CORAM : A. S. GADKARI AND RANJITSINHA RAJA BHONSALE, JJ. RESERVED ON : 3rd OCTOBER, 2025 PRONOUNCED ON : 4th DECEMBER, 2025 1/15 KSG APEALST-12301-24.doc JUDGMENT. : (Per:- A.S. Gadkari, J.) 1) This is an Appeal under Section 21(4) of the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 (for short ‘NIA Act’) by the Original Accused No.12, impugning the Order dated 14 th February 2022, passed below Exh. 535, in NIA Special Case No.414 of 2020, by the learned Special Judge, NIA, City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Mumbai. By the impugned Order, the Application for bail filed by the Appellant under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) for the offences punishable under Sections 121, 121-A, 124-A, 153-A, 505(1)(b), 115, 120-B, 201 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1872 and Sections 13, 16, 17, 18, 18-A, 18-B, 20, 38 and 39 of the Unlawful