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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. 394 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mr. Gaurav Singh, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. V.S. Pal, learned A.G.A. for the State.
3. The present applicant ‘SunnyKatariya’ is seeking regular bail in relation to FIR dated 30.12.2024 registered as FIR No. 0520 of 2024, P.S. Kaliyar Shareef, District Haridwar, wherein, the applicant has been implicated for the offences punishable under Sections 115, 64(2)(m) of BNS, 2023 and Section 5(l)/6 of POCSO Act.
4.
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated with some ulterior purpose and motive by the victim, which is evident from the fact that earlier she moved an application under Section 156(3) of Cr.P.C. with same set of allegations on 22.11.2024, however, on 30.11.2024 she withdraw the said application and thereafter after a month she lodged this FIR.
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Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the allegation as alleged appears to be a very concocted story. He further submits that the investigation has already been completed and the chargesheet has been filed and in such an eventuality, there is no need of custodial interrogation of the applicant. He further submits that the applicant has no previous criminal history.
6. Learned A.G.A. Mr. V.S. Pal on written instructions have not disputed this fact that the applicant has no previous criminal history and the chargesheet has been filed.
7. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and further taking into consideration that the investigation has already been completed and the chargesheet has been filed therefore there is no
need of custodial interrogation of the applicant and as such 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 ‘Sunny Katariya’ be released on bail on furnishing his personal bond and two sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 06.03.2025 PR