RAJEEV RATHORE Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

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(2.) THESE four petitions under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (the Cr. P.C.) by Rajiv Rathore, petitioner, seek the cancellation and quashing of the relevant First Information Reports registered at the same or different Police Stations of Jaipur City, against him and some others. As per desire and consent of the learned counsel for the parties these were heard together and are now disposed of by this combined order. The main order shall be placed on the record of S.B. Cr. Misc. Petition No. 602 of 1999 and a copy thereof on the records of each of the remaining petitions.

(3.) ON the basis of the information gathered by him in the above manner, the Investigating Officer formed the opinion on 24.4.99 that the petitioner appeared to be concerned with the abduction of Kalu Ram as he (the petitioner) was alleged to be the prospective purchaser of the property in question. Being of such opinion he required the petitioner to appear before him at the police station for interrogation. The petitioner appeared before him on that very day at 10.00 p.m. After interrogating him the investigating officer suspected that he might have contacted Munna on his Mobile telephone and might have made payment of some money from his Bank Accounts to Bhartesh Chandra Sogani. He, therefore, arrested the petitioner at 11.00 p.m. on 24.4.99. ON 25.4.99 the petitioner was produced before a Magistrate who ordered that the petitioner be kept in police custody and be produced on 26.4.99 before the concerned Magistrate. The concerned Magistrate remanded the petitioner to police custody upto 28.4.99. In the course of further interrogation the petitioner denied to have purchased the property or agreed to purchase the same from Bhartesh Chandra Sogani. He told the Investigating Officer that on 19.4.99 he had left for Delhi, stayed for the night at Behror Midway and then in the RSEB Rest House in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi and returned to Jaipur in the morning of 22.4.99.