Gautam Navlakha vs National Investigation Agency on 12 May, 2021
14) and others; that on 04.05.2023, 'Investigation Officer' (hereinafter 'IO'
for the sake of brevity and convenience) [to be noted, Inspector of Police
Mr.V.Arun Magesh, NIA is the IO] filed a memo in trial court arraying
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the petitioner and others as accused persons; that on the same day, i.e.,
on 04.05.2023, IO filed a petition in trial court requesting for search
warrants qua petitioner; that on 05.05.2023, search warrants were issued
by trial court; that on obtaining search warrants, NIA conducted searches
in the residence and farm house of petitioner; that on 08.05.2023, on
receipt of final report / charge sheet, trial court had taken cognizance of
the same and assigned Special S.C.No.1 of 2023; that on 09.05.2023, the
petitioner was arrested; that a remand prayer was made by NIA in trial
court qua petitioner and four others (five in all); that trial court acceded to
the remand request; that trial court vide order dated 09.05.2023
remanded the petitioner till 23.05.2023; that petitioner filed a bail petition
dated 16.05.2023 vide Crl.M.P.No.893 of 2023 inter-alia under Section
439 of Cr.P.C read with Section 43D of UAPA; that NIA filed objections
dated 08.06.2023; that trial court in and by 'order dated 20.06.2023 in
Crl.M.P.No.893 of 2023' dismissed the bail plea after hearing both sides
(hereinafter 'impugned order' for the sake of brevity, convenience and
clarity); that captioned criminal appeal (Crl.A.No.678 of 2023) has been
filed in this Court on 23.06.2023 under section 21(4) of 'The National
Investigation Agency Act, 2008 [Act 34 of 2008]' {hereinafter 'NIA Act'
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for the sake of convenience}; that aforementioned 'FIR No.RC-
42/2022/NIA/DLI dated 19.09.2022' is sought to be quashed (insofar as
the petitioner is concerned) in captioned Crl.O.P.No.12229 of 2023 and
therefore, the aforementioned FIR shall hereinafter be referred to as
'impugned FIR' for the sake of convenience; that in the interregnum, on
22.05.2023, captioned HCP No.1114 of 2023 has been filed in this court
by brother of the petitioner [Thiru M.Syed Mohamed Abuthahir] inter-
alia saying that the remand order dated 09.05.2023 made by the trial
court is bad; that this HCP before being assigned a number was listed
before this Court for orders regarding maintainability; that this Court in
and by order dated 21.06.2023 directed the Registry to assign a number
if otherwise in order, preserving rights of respondents (State) to raise the
issue of maintainability; that this maintainability order was made by this
court inter-alia on a prima facie view that paragraph 71 of Gautam
Navlakha case being Gautam Navlakha Vs. National Investigation
Agency reported in 2021 SCC OnLine SC 382 carved out two
exceptions qua Serious Fraud Investigation Office principle [Serious
Fraud Investigation Office Vs. Rahul Modi reported in (2019) 5 SCC
266] more particularly paragraphs 19 and 21 thereat; that captioned
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matters were tagged considering the common factual matrix and owing to
many arguments advanced being either dovetailed or intertwined on facts
and law.