Hassan police hold two operations against sale, transport of narcotics, arrest three men
Hassan: Police have busted two attempts to sell narcotics in separate parts of the district recently and arrested three men for involvement in the criminal activity. More than 2 kg ganja, worth approximately Rs 3 lakh, was seized.
Hassan Town Police, who reportedly received information on ganja trade from credible sources, are said to have held an operation near the Deve Gowda Nagar Bus Stand in town and held Adil Pasha (29) and Muhammad Tabriz (29). Also, the police confiscated 1.3 kg narcotics from the duo.
In the second instance, Halebidu Police arrested one Govinda (40), who was reportedly standing near the Bandarikatte Bus Stand on Hagare-Halebidu Road for sale of ganja. Up to 510 gm of ganja was seized by the police.
FIRs have been filed in both cases and investigation is underway.
Police sources have said that the raids were held as a part of the Department’s operations to suppress transport and sale of narcotics.
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Court can reject anticipatory bail but cannot direct accused to surrender: SC
New Delhi (PTI): A court can reject anticipatory bail of an accused but it has no jurisdiction to direct him to surrender before the trial court, the Supreme Court has said.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while hearing a plea filed by a man accused of cheating and forgery.
"If the court wants to reject the anticipatory bail, it may do so, but the court has no jurisdiction to say that the petitioner should now surrender," the bench said.
The Jharkhand High Court had rejected anticipatory bail plea of the accused and asked him to surrender and seek regular bail.
In this case, a complaint had been filed before a magistrate alleging offences under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document) and 120B read with 34 of the IPC, in connection with a land dispute.
The high court had dismissed the second anticipatory bail application of the accused on the ground that no new circumstances were shown.
It had relied on its earlier order rejecting his first anticipatory bail plea, in which the court directed the petitioner to surrender before the trial court and seek regular bail in terms of the decision in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.
The top court said such a direction was wholly without jurisdiction and said that if a court chooses to reject anticipatory bail, it may do so, but it cannot compel the accused to surrender.
