JUDGEMENT
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(1.)These Special Leave Petitions arises out of the judgment and order passed by the High Court of Gauhati at Guwahati in Crl. M.C. 226 of 2013 in B.A. No. 654 of 2013 (D/o.), dated 16.07.2013, whereby and whereunder the High Court has cancelled the bail granted to the Petitioners herein by the High Court.
(2.)A succinct recapitulation of the facts in the instant case is:
On the complaint of one Tofail Ahmed alleging kidnapping of his son, P.S. Case No. 181/2011 was registered Under Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short "the Indian Penal Code") at the Badarpur Police Station at Karimganj, Assam, dated 22.11.2012. Sessions Case No. 75 of 2012 arising out of the aforesaid was registered Under Sections 365, 120B, 302 and 201 of Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act against two accused-Petitioners herein-Kamal Hussain and Mumin Uddin. Further, another Police Case No. 126 of 2012 was registered Under Section 365, 120B, 302, 201 of Indian Penal Code and Section 25(1-B)(a), (2) and (3) of the Arms Act for threatening to commit murder of the witnesses in the aforesaid Sessions Trial against the Petitioner accused persons herein and the corresponding Sessions Case No. 182 of 2012 was committed. The accused-Petitioners were in judicial custody. While the aforesaid two accused Petitioners in Sessions Case No. 75 of 2012 were acquitted, the Trial Court had enlarged accused Petitioner-Abdul Basit on bail by order dated 24.01.2013.
(3.)The wife of the deceased preferred Writ Petition No. 4523 of 2012 before the High Court for the direction to investigating agencies in Police Case No. 126 of 2012 to investigate properly. The High Court took note of the fact that the Sessions Case No. 182 of 2012 is at the stage of framing of charges and observed that depending upon the materials on record the Trial Court is at liberty to invoke Section 173(8) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, "the Code") requiring further investigation by an independent agency, more particularly the CID, by its order dated 29.01.2013.