SACHIN HINDURAO WAZE vs UNION OF INDIA THROUGH S.P.

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1 of 36 wp-2485-24-F IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 2485 OF 2024 Sachin Hindurao Waze ..Petitioner Versus Union of India, Through the S.P. The National Investigation Agency & Anr. ..Respondents __________ Mr. Rounak Naik a/w. Ms. Sajal Yadav, Ms. Aayushya Genuja, Harsh Ghangurde, Ms. Dakshata Dupare and Nihal Rebello for Petitioner. Mr. Sandesh D. Patil a/w. Chintan Shah, Prithviraj Gole, Krishnakant Deshmukh, Anusha Amin and Ms. Divya Pawar for Respondent No.1/NIA. Mr. J. P. Yagnik, APP for State/Respondent. Mr. Nitin Pawar and Mr. Akhilesh Singh, NIA present. __________ CORAM : SARANG V. KOTWAL & S. M. MODAK, JJ. RESERVED ON : 24 FEBRUARY 2025 PRONOUNCED ON: 06 MARCH 2025 JUDGMENT : [PER SARANG V. KOTWAL, J.] 1. Heard Mr. Rounak Naik, learned counsel for the Petitioner, Mr. Sandesh Patil, learned counsel for the Respondent No.1/NIA and Mr. Yagnik, learned APP for the State. 2. This is a writ petition praying for writ of habeas corpus 2 of 36 wp-2485-24-F alleging that the Petitioner’s detention is illegal. The Petitioner is seeking his release forthwith. Though, there are many grounds raised in the petition, learned counsel for the Petitioner restricted his arguments to the grounds which are noted and considered in the following discussion. 3. Before referring to the submissions made by the learned counsel on behalf of the Petitioner, it is necessary to mention the background as to how the Petitioner came to be arraigned as an accused. There were three separate incidents, apparently having no connection with each other; however, as the events unfolded subsequently, it was realised that all these three incidents were interconnected and the Petitioner was a common factor involved in all these three in