2025:UHC:9436 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR VERMA 27th OCTOBER, 2025 ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO. 1244 OF 2024 Pradeep Jain ..... Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand ..…Respondent Counsel for the Applicant : Mr. Bharat Singh, Advocate. Counsel for the Respondent : Mr. G.S. Sandhu, Additional Advocate General assisted by Mr. Deepak Bhardwaj, Brief Holder. Hon’ble Alok Kumar Verma,J. This Application has been filed for anticipatory bail in Case Crime No.635 of 2024, registered at Police Station Gangnahar, District Haridwar. Charge-sheet has been filed for the offence under Sections 336(2), 336(4) and Section 340(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 2. According to the First Information Report, the applicant had sent letters in the name of the informant to the various Government departments and it has been captured in CCTV footages. 3. Heard Mr. Bharat Singh, learned counsel for the applicant and Mr. G.S. Sandhu, Additional Advocate General for the respondent. 4. Mr. Bharat Singh, Advocate, contended that the said allegations are false. Applicant had visited post office but he had not posted those letters and there is no 1 2025:UHC:9436 evidence to that effect. There are multiple litigations between the parties. Applicant is not a convicted person. He is a permanent resident of District Haridwar, therefore, there is no possibility of his absconding. Charge-sheet has been filed, therefore, there is no chance of tampering with the evidence, and, the applicant was granted interim bail on 13.12.2024, and, the conditions of the interim bail have not been violated by him. 5. Mr. G.S. Sandhu, Additional Advocate General for the respondent has opposed the anticipatory bail application. 6. Personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India is very precious fundamental right and it should be curtailed only when it becomes imperative according to the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case. 7. Having heard the submissions of learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view of the facts and circumstances of the case, without commenting on the merits of the case, the present Anticipatory Bail Application is allowed and the order dated 13.12.2024, granting interim bail to the applicant, is made absolute. It is directed that in the event of arrest of the applicant Pradeep Jain, he shall be released on anticipatory bail on executing a personal bond of Rs. 30,000/- and two reliable sureties, each of the like amount, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer, 2 2025:UHC:9436 subject to the following conditions:- (i) Applicant shall attend the trial court regularly and he shall 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 this case; (iii) Applicant shall not leave the country without the previous permission of the trial court. 8. It is made clear that if the applicant misuses or violates any of the conditions, imposed upon him, the prosecution agency will be free to move the Court for cancellation of the anticipatory bail. ___________________ ALOK KUMAR VERMA, J. Date: 27.10.2025 Shiv/ 3