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A Vadodara court Tuesday heard a revision petition of the Vadodara city police, filed against an April 6 Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court order directing “immediate release from illegal detention” of Praanshu Chauhan, co-passenger of Rakshit Chaurasiya — the MSU law student who is the prime accused in March 13 Karelibaug car crash that killed one and injured seven others. Chauhan had moved the court contending “illegal detention” at Karelibaug police station, where he has been made a co-accused in the accident case.
On Tuesday, district government pleader, Vadodara, Anil Desai made submissions before the district sessions court, contending that the JMFC court had “no jurisdiction” to issue the orders in the case. Desai told The Indian Express, “The Vadodara city police had moved a revision petition against the order of the JMFC court, which had ordered the release of Praanshu Chauhan. The ground for the petition is that the case is lodged under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Section for culpable homicide not amounting to murder for which, the minimum penal provision is 10 years and can be extended to life imprisonment. As per the procedure, a JMFC court cannot hear cases where the penal section has a provision for punishment above seven years.”
Chauhan, who was also arrested and granted bail in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) case lodged against him at Warasiya police station, had moved the court stating that Karelibaug police station “illegally detained” him within minutes of being granted bail in the NDPS case on April 5, 2025. The illegal detention, Chauhan had claimed, was purportedly done in connection with Chaurasiya’s accident case but he had been “illegally detained in custody at Karelibaug Police Station since April 3 around 12:00 pm and was further illegally detained in police custody for the whole night on April 3, without informing him for the reasons of such detention.”
Chauhan’s advocate Hitesh Gupta told this newspaper that he has also moved an application before the court, seeking a copy of the ground of arrest made by the police. Gupta said, “We have preferred an application in the court stating that the police have to supply a copy of the grounds of arrest, which has not yet been given to my client, if at all the police have followed the procedure. Our case is that he had been arrested without the formal process of citing the grounds of arrest.” The next hearing is slated for Saturday, April 19.
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