1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 401 of 2009 Dr. Parthasarthi Mukund Shukla .vs. The Local Crime Branch, Akola ________________________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Court's or Judge's orders. Registrars orders. CORAM : D.D. SINHA & P.B. VARALE, JJ. DATED : JULY 30, 2009. Heard Mr. M.G. Bhangde, the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. A.G. Mujumdar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondent. In the present Criminal Writ Petition, the petitioner is seeking direction to declare that conducting of Narco-analysis, Brain-Mapping and Lie-Detector Tests on the petitioner is violative of Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India and, therefore, the petitioner is also seeking quashing of an application moved by the respondent dated 11.6.2009 for conducting these tests before the J.M.F.C., Court No.5, Akola. The learned A.P.P. has brought to our notice that the hearing on the said application is fixed before the learned Magistrate on 1.8.2009. In that view of the matter, it will be appropriate to keep this issue open at this stage and leave it to the Magistrate to consider the application on merits. Mr. M.G. Bhangde, the learned Senior Counsel for 2 the petitioner, has submitted that the petitioner alternatively has prayed that in case the order of the Magistrate on the said application goes against the petitioner, the same may not be given effect to for a period of 15 days in view of decision of this Court in the case of Rajkumar Mohandas Savani .vs. State of Maharashtra & others reported in 2009 ALL MR (Cri) 1162. On the backdrop of the above referred facts, we dispose of the Criminal Writ Petition keeping the issues raised in the petition open. If the order of the Magistrate on the application dated 11.6.2009 is adverse to the petitioner, same may not be given effect to for a period of ten days. JUDGE JUDGE. J.