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2025:UHC:8579 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s
order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
BA1 No. 1784 of 2025
Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mohd. Azmeen, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. V.S. Pal, learned A.G.A. for the State.
3. The present applicant ‘Jikrul Hassan’ S/o Sh. Ahmad Hassan is praying for bail in relation to First Information Report dated 04.04.2025 bearing FIR No. 3 of 2025, P.S. Baluwakot, District Pithoragarh, wherein, four persons were implicated for the offences punishable under Sections 179 and 180 of BNS, 2023.
4. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated, which is evident from the fact that the applicant is not named in the FIR and he also submits that no recovery was shown from the present applicant and whatever be the recovery is shown by the prosecution that is from the other co-accused.
5. He further submits that the five other co- accused persons namely Sameer Ul Rahman, Shoaib, Waseem Khan, Asif and Nitin Singh Brijwal were already granted bail by this court. He also submits that the applicant is also facing a criminal trial with the same nature of offence in the State of U.P. but in that case the applicant is already bailed out.
6. On the other side, Mr. V.S. Pal, learned A.G.A. have not disputed this fact that the other five other co-accused have already been granted bail and furthermore the applicant is not named in the FIR and he is languishing in jail since 31.05.2025 and also have not disputed that the trial with the same nature of allegation, which the applicant is facing in U.P., the applicant is already enlarged on bail.
7. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and further taking into
consideration that the applicant is not named in the FIR and the five other co-accused have already
2025:UHC:8579 been granted bail, this court is of the view that the applicant deserves for bail.
8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case the bail application is allowed.
9. Let the applicant ‘Jikrul Hassan’ be released on bail on furnishing his personal bond and two reliable sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned.
10. It is made clear that if the applicant is found to be indulged in any such activity in future, the prosecution is free to apprise this court by moving an application for cancelling the bail.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 24.09.2025 PR
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