Dilipbhai Maldebhai Sanjva, accused No. 5 in an FIR registered at Ranavav Police Station, Porbandar, sought regular bail before the Gujarat High Court after a chargesheet was filed against him under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crimes Act, 2015 (GUJCTOC Act). The applicant argued that the GUJCTOC provisions were invoked mechanically without satisfying mandatory statutory requirements, as only one offence was registered within Gujarat against the alleged syndicate and no co-accused of the GUJCTOC offence were arraigned together. The State opposed bail, contending the applicant was an active member of an organized crime syndicate with criminal antecedents spanning 10 years across multiple districts, and posed a risk of tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses. The Court found that the conditions required to invoke the GUJCTOC Act were prima facie not fully satisfied, and, relying on a series of Supreme Court judgments on the right to speedy trial under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution, held that prolonged incarceration without trial amounts to pre-trial conviction, warranting bail on the ground of delay in trial.