2025:UHC:877 SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS ABA No.814 of 2023 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. Harshit Sanwal, learned counsel for applicant. 2. Mr. Bhaskar Chandra Joshi, learned A.G.A. with Ms. Sweta Dobhal, learned Brief Holder for the State of Uttarakhand. 3. Applicant is before this Court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with FIR No.32 of 2017 dated 10.03.2017 registered at P.S. Pant Nagar, District Udham Singh Nagar for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 465, 466, 468, 471, 474, 120-B & 34 IPC and Section 8/9 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (Special Sessions Trial No.4 of 2020), State Vs. Baljeet Kaur & others, pending in the court of Special Judge (Anti Corruption), Haldwani, Nainital. 4. It is the contention of learned counsel for the applicant that the said FIR was lodged against as many as 113 accused persons, in respect of same land scam, which is commonly known as ‘N.H. Ghotala in Uttarakhand’. It is further submitted by him that most of the accused persons have been enlarged on bail by this Court, and many of them have been given anticipatory bail by this Court. He further submitted that this is a case of parity. 5. It is also submitted by the learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant has already been enlarged on bail by this Court, on interim bail vide order dated 2025:UHC:877 20.09.2023, therefore, the order should now be made absolute. 6. Per contra, learned State Counsel does not dispute this fact of the case being of parity with those who have already been released on bail or anticipatory bail. 7. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the order dated 20.09.2023, by which the applicant was released on interim anticipatory bail is hereby made absolute. There is no need to file any fresh bail bond as applicant has already been released by executing the sureties and personal bond to the satisfaction of the court concerned, on the following conditions:- (i). Applicants shall attend the Trial court regularly and he will not seek any unnecessary adjournment; (ii) Applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case. (iii) Applicant shall not leave the country without the previous permission of this Court. 8. Accordingly, the anticipatory bail application stands disposed of. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 13.02.2025 PN