A single bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court denied anticipatory bail to the petitioner on the grounds that anticipatory bail petition lacks reasonable grounds under the requirements for application of such petition.
The petitioner, Yogesh Gupta had been questioned in relation to the AP TIDCO case. The Police had failed to present corroborative or direct evidence to establish a prima facie case against the petitioner.
The Petitioner had obtained anticipatory bail with regards to that case. The petitioner contended that his apprehension of arrest was evident from the remand report of Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu in the AP TIDCO case, where the Petitioner had been labeled a conspirator.
The Respondent-State denied all the allegations presented in the petition, asserting that the current petition lacks legal merit and factual basis and should be dismissed. The state contended that no case, as described by the Petitioner, had been registered against the petitioner. The state clarified that no proceedings were ongoing against the petitioner in the AP TIDCO case. The state also pointed out that the petitioner had violated his bail order conditions
The petitioner was represented by Manish Pratap Singh. The state was represented by Y.N. Vivekananda.
The court denied the anticipatory bail petition filed by the petitioner. Justice Mallikarjuna observed that “that the anticipatory bail is not to be granted as a matter of routine, and it has to be granted when the Court is convinced that exceptional circumstances exist to resort to that extraordinary remedy.”
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