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2013 (10) TMI 1582

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..... e basis of fake conductors' licence-cum-badge and fake driving licence after charging huge amount. On this information, a raid was conducted. Decoy customers were deputed for being recruited as drivers and conductors. A trap was laid. Pradeep and Devender demanded Rs. 70,000/- for conductor's post in cluster bus service and Rs. 40,000/- were demanded for the driver's post and as per deal, part payment was made to Pradeep as advance money. Devender handed over fake conductor's licence and first aid certificate to the decoy customer and Pradeep handed over the fake driving license to the second decoy customer. On signal from decoy customers, Pradeep and Devender were apprehended and fake documents handed over by them to decoy .....

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..... (DIMTS) for providing fare collection and related services in operation of private stage carriage buses and the main job of the company was to provide the conductors to the said DIMTS. The applicant is not the Assistant Director but as per the letter of appointment, he is only Assistant Manager. He was never involved in the recruitment of conductors of DIMTS and in fact the applicants applied for the post of conductor on the prescribed format and they were selected as per the requirement of DIMTS. He is in custody since 09th September 2013. Nothing has been recovered from the possession of the applicant. He has been falsely implicated in this case as such he be released on bail. Reliance was placed on Anil Mahajan vs. Commissioner of Custo .....

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..... /- each to Paramjeet and his associates. On interrogation, Paramjeet disclosed that he has so far appointed more than 2000 conductors with the help of Devender and Pradeep and some other associates out of which a number of candidates were appointed on the basis of forged document. The particulars of the conductors working on public transport cluster post are being verified from the concerned transport authorities. The verification report regarding five driving license of drivers appointed by this illegal racket has been received from ARDO/Kanpur/U.P. which are reportedly found fake. Verification report regarding five First Aid Certificates recovered from accused person has also been received from St. John Ambulance Association, Red cross Bh .....

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..... For the purpose of granting or refusing bail there is no classification of the offences except the ban under Section 437(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code against grant of bail in the case of offences punishable with death or life imprisonment. Hence there is no statutory support or justification for classifying offences into different categories such as economic offences and for refusing bail on the ground that the offence involved belongs to a particular category. When the Court has been granted discretion in the matter of granting bail and when there is no statute prescribing a special treatment in the case of a particular offence the Court cannot classify the cases and say that in particular classes bail may be granted but not in other .....

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..... with; the larger interest of the public or the State; the position and status of the accused with reference to the victim and the witness; the likelihood of the accused fleeing from justice; the likelihood of the accused repeating the offence; the history of the case as well as the stage if investigation etc. In view of so many variable factors the considerations which should weigh with the Court cannot be exhaustively set out. However, the two paramount considerations are (i) the likelihood of the accused fleeing from justice, and (ii) the likelihood of the accused tampering with prosecution evidence. These two consideration in fact relate to ensuring a fair trial of the case in a court of justice and hence it is essential that due and pro .....

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