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Court rejects BJD leader son's writ plea against NBW

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CUTTACK: The High Court on Thursday refused to quash the NBW issued by a lower court against senior BJD leader and former Minister Damodar Rout's son Sambit Routray and directed the latter to surrender before a lower court to obtain a regular bail.

Sambit moved the court praying quashing of the NBW issued against him by JMFC court of Kujanga in Jagatsinghpur district in November 2006 in connection with an election related case of 2004.

`First surrender'

A single judge Bench of the High Court comprising Justice Pradeep K. Mohanty disposed of the criminal revision petition of Sambit with a direction that "the petitioner shall surrender before the lower court and move for the regular bail." The lower court was also directed to consider the bail application of the petitioner on the basis of the merit of the case.

Judicial Magistrate D.G. Barik issued NBW against the BJD leader's son after taking cognisance of a police charge sheet, which indicted Sambit as an "absconder accused" in the case. The judicial magistrate observed that there was prima facie evidence against all the five accused persons, including the son of the former Minister.

The Erasama police filed the case against the political leader's son and four others under several sections of the IPC and Section 135 of the Representation of Peoples Act for creating disturbances in a polling booth during the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in April 2004. The presiding officer of the booth had lodged the FIR against the accused persons.

The presiding officer, in his complaint, stated that on April 26, 2004, while the polling for the State Assembly and Lok Sabha was on, some miscreants led by Sambit entered into the booth and destroyed the polling material. They also created disturbances in the polling work for which the polling was stopped, the FIR added.

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