Ravi Thakur v. State of Himachal Pradesh CrMP No.1451 of 2025 in CrMPM No. 1550 of 2024 28.4.2025 Present: Mr. Lovenessh Thakur, Advocate, for the applicant/petitioner. Mr. Rajan Kahol, Mr. Vishal Panwar and Mr. B.C. Verma, Additional Advocates General with Mr. Ravi Chauhan, Deputy Advocate General, for the State. By way of instant application, permission has been sought by the applicant/petitioner to travel abroad pending investigation in FIR No. 40/2024 dated 10.3.2024, under Sections 120-B, 171-A, 171-C of IPC read with Sections 7 and 8 of Prevention of corruption Act, 1988, registered with Police Station Boileauganj, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. 2. Pursuant to order dated 25.4.2025, Mr. Rajan Kahol, learned Additional Advocate General, has placed on record instructions/ status report and SI Rakesh Kumar, has come present with record. Record perused and returned. 3. Averments contained in the application reveal that since daughter of the petitioner is studying in MAHSA University, Malaysia and she wants to change her accommodation, petitioner herein has prayed through instant application to permit him to travel to Malaysia w.e.f. 30.4.2025 to 5.5.2025, enabling him to make proper arrangements for stay of his daughter. 4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the material available on record, this Court is of the view that no prejudice, if any, shall be caused to the prosecution in case petitioner is permitted to visit Malaysia for making arrangements to change the accommodation of his daughter. 5. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and perused material available on record, this Court finds that vide order dated 6.9.2024, passed in CrMMO No. 850 of 2024, this Court had permitted the petitioner to visit Malaysia, enabling him to get his daughter admitted in the afore University as detailed herein above. Since his daughter wants to change her accommodation, petitioner again intends to visit Malaysia. Since factum with regard to admission of the daughter of the petitioner in the college as detailed herein above is not in dispute and petitioner has furnished details with regard to purpose of his visit to Malaysia, this Court sees no impediment in accepting the prayer made by the petitioner to permit him to visit Malaysia during period as detailed herein above. 6. Consequently, in view of the above, present application is allowed subject to condition that petitioner will come back to India latest by 5.5.2025 and thereafter shall join investigation, enabling the Investigating Agency to conclude the investigation. In the aforesaid terms, present application is disposed of. April 28, 2025 (Sandeep Sharma), manjit Judge