SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS BA2 No. 341 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Rakesh Badola, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. G.S. Sandhu, learned Addl. Advocate General with Mr. Himanshu Sain and Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holders for the State. 3. This is the second bail application and the first bail application was rejected by this Court on 01.08.2025. 4. Present applicant ‘Pankaj Kumar, son of Shri Harish Chandra,’ is praying for regular bail in relation to First Information Report dated 07.01.2025 bearing FIR No. 0001 of 2025, Police Station – Riknikhal, District – Pauri Garhwal wherein present applicant along with six others have been implicated for the offences punishable under Section 80, 85 of BNS, 2023 read with Section 3 / 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, in which on completion of investigation the present applicant has been charge sheeted for the offences punishable under Section 80 (2), 85 and 123 of BNS, 2023 and Section 3 / 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 5. It is argued by the learned counsel for the applicant that after rejection of the first bail application, four prosecution witnesses have been examined and one of which is the father-in-law of the applicant (father of the deceased), who has not supported the prosecution case. This prosecution witness has categorically stated that there was no such complaint of his daughter that she was being harassed by the present applicant. 6. Apart from this, he submits that applicant is in jail since 24.06.2025 and there are in total 33 prosecution witnesses, out of which, uptil date only 4 prosecution witnesses have been examined and there is no possibility that the trial would be expedited within a short span of time. 7. On the other side, the learned State Counsel has not been disputed that after rejection of the first bail application, only four prosecution witnesses have been examined, however, he submits relevancy of the statement of prosecution witnesses are subject matter of the trial, therefore, this aspect cannot be looked into though uptil date, out of 33 prosecution witnesses, only 4 prosecution witnesses have been examined. 8. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration that applicant is in jail since 24.06.2025 and uptil date, out of 33 prosecution witnesses, only 4 prosecution witnesses have been examined, this Court is of the view that applicant deserves for bail. 9. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the second bail application is allowed. 10. Let the applicant - ‘Pankaj Kumar, son of Shri Harish Chandra,’ be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 06.01.2026 SKS