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Bail GrantedDhansingh @ Dhansa @ Dhanupratap Singh v. State of Rajasthan
2026:RJ-JP:41432
S.B. Criminal Miscellaneous Bail Application No. 9299/2026
- Court
- Rajasthan High Court
- Date of Decision
- 8 October 2026
- Bench
- Justice Anil Kumar Upman
- Relevant Acts & Sections
- Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — Sections 483, 103; Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 — Section 111; Arms Act, 1959 — Sections 3, 5, 25; Explosives Act, 1884 — Section 9B
Final Outcome
Bail application allowed: release on a personal bond of Rs 5,00,000 with two sureties of Rs 2,50,000 each; no further offence, weekly police-station attendance till the trial ends, passport surrender and an active phone; the SHO must report missed attendance (paras 10-12).
Key holdings
- Criminal antecedents are relevant but no automatic bar to bail; earlier acquittals cannot be overlooked (paras 6-7).
- Over eleven months in custody, no prosecution evidence yet and a seven-year maximum sentence favoured bail (para 7).
- No prima facie material showed that the accused owned or possessed the premises of recovery (para 8).
- Given the antecedents, bail came with weekly police-station attendance, passport surrender and an active mobile number (para 11).
- A reported breach of these conditions is alone a reason for the trial court to cancel bail (para 13).
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Brief Facts
The petitioner sought bail under Section 483 of the BNSS in a case of Police Station Sarana, District Ajmer, charge-sheeted under Sections 3/25 and 5/25(7)(i) of the Arms Act, 1959, Section 9B of the Explosives Act, 1884 and Section 111(2)(b) of the BNS (para 1). His counsel submitted that the recovery was false and he neither owned nor possessed the place of recovery; that admittedly no independent witness joined the search, which Section 103 of the BNSS does not treat as a formality; that he was acquitted in 26 of 52 other cases; and that he was in custody since 02.11.2025 with no witness yet examined (para 2). The State called him a habitual offender (para 3).
Court's Findings
The Court framed the question as whether the mere existence of other criminal cases can by itself justify refusing bail (para 5). Referring to a catena of Supreme Court judgments, which it does not name, it said previous cases are not an absolute or inflexible ground for declining bail: bail turns on balancing the accusation, the evidence, the risk of absconding or tampering, the outcome of earlier cases and the need for detention, and antecedents are weighed with these, not as an automatic disqualification (para 6). Here, half of the 52 cases had ended in acquittal, which cannot be overlooked, and several of the rest are stated to be relatively trivial, so their number or pendency was not conclusive (para 7). The Court also weighed custody of over eleven months, the prosecution evidence not having begun and the seven-year maximum sentence (para 7). Nothing on record yet showed prima facie that he owned, occupied or possessed the premises of recovery, and the witnesses were mainly police officers he was not shown able to influence (para 8). The order makes no finding on the Section 103 point; its observations do not bear on the merits (paras 9, 15).
Legal Principle
The mere existence or pendency of other criminal cases is not, by itself, a conclusive ground to refuse bail. Antecedents may be weighed, but together with the nature of the accusation, the strength of the evidence, the outcome of earlier cases, the period of custody, the maximum sentence and the risk of absconding or tampering (paras 6-7).
