ANIRUDHSINHJI KARANSINHJI JADEJA Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The two appellants are in jail being accused of having committed offences, inter alia under Section 3 and 5 of the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 (for short 'the TADA'). Their prayer is to release them on bail, which has been denied by the Designated Court. In support of this plea, a large number of points were raised before us in course of arguments. It is not necessary to go into all these questions as, according to us, the appeal deserves to be allowed on the sole ground of wrong invocation of TADA in the case of the appellants.

(2.) To bring home the above, we may note the prosecution case in short, which is that:

(3.) It has been alleged that deceased Jayantilal, aged 32 years, was a resident of Gondal and was a leading member of the Patel community. Previously, he was a member of the Gondal Nagar Palika and also Director of Gondal Nagrik Sahakari Bank. The post-morten revealed that the deceased had received gun-shot injuries and also injuries caused by knives. The murderers had come in a white Ambassador Car No. GIG-375 and had fired twice at the deceased and had caused injuries by sharp weapons. After killing the deceased, the murderers absonconded. The car was ultimately recovered from a place within Jamkandorna Police Station, and all the four accused were arrested there on 16-3-1995 at 21. 15 hours.