LOK 2019 (4) SC 28 · Supreme Court of India
Equivalent citations: 2019 INSC 456 : AIR 2019 SC 1734 : 2019 (2) Crimes 63 : 2019 CriLJ 2609 : JT 2019 (4) SC 51 : 2019 KLT (Online) 3012 : 2019 (5) Scale 774 : (2019) 5 SCC 1 : 2019 KHC 6384
ActsNational Investigation Agency Act, 2008, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, (6) and (7), Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 The respondent, a Kashmiri businessman named as Accused No. 10 in an NIA case of terror funding and conspiracy to wage war, was refused bail by the Designated Court. The charges were under Sections 120B, 121, 121A and 124A IPC and Sections 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 38, 39 and 40 of the UAPA. The High Court granted bail after examining the prosecution material in detail. It treated the central document, a loose “green sheet” recording foreign receipts and disbursements (D-132(a)), as inadmissible, discarded Section 161 statements, and declined to consider the Section 164 statements of protected witnesses produced in a sealed cover. The NIA appealed.