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SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS
BA1 No. 2457 of 2024
Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mr. Tarun Prakash Takuli, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. Siddhartha Bisht, learned A.G.A. for the State.
3. The present applicant ‘Mariyam’ W/o Taufeek Ahmad @ Chhuttan is praying for regular bail in relation to First Information Report dated 13.10.2024 bearing FIR No. 0413 of 2024 P.S. Kichha, District Udham Singh Nagar, wherein, the four persons including the present applicant and her two sons were implicated for the offences punishable under Section 80(2) of BNS, 2023.
4.
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant’s son Nadeem married with the deceased in the month of January, 2022 and thereafter some dispute arose in between both of them and she was under depression and then she commit suicide on 13.10.2024 in her maternal house.
5.
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the investigation has already been completed and the chargesheet has been filed, and the present applicant being the mother-in-law of the deceased and is languishing in jail since 23.10.2024. He further submits that the husband of the deceased (son of present applicant) is already in jail.
6. On the other side, learned A.G.A. Mr. Siddhartha Bisht have not disputed this fact that the present applicant is languishing in jail since 23.10.2024 and submits that since the learned counsel for the applicant gives the statement that the investigation has already been completed and chargesheet has been filed, therefore, in such an eventuality, there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant.
7. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and further taking into consideration
that the applicant is languishing in jail since 23.10.2024 and the investigation has already been concluded and the chargesheet has already been filed, therefore, there is no need of the custodial interrogation of the present applicant, 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 ‘Mariyam’ be released on bail on furnishing her personal bond and two sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 20.06.2025 PR