SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS ABA no.260 of 2025 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. Lalit Sharma, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. S.C. Dumka, learned AGA with Ms. Sweta B. Dobhal, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. Heard. 4. Applicant is before this Court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with FIR No. 32 of 2017, dated 10.03.2017, which was registered at P.S. Pant Nagar, District Udham Singh Nagar, for the offences punishable u/s 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 474, 120-B/34 IPC and Sections 8/9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Sessions Trial No.6 of 2019, State vs. Ramesh Kumar and others, pending before the Court of Special Judge, P.C. Act, Nainital). 5. It is the contention of learned counsel for the applicant that the said case was lodged against as many as 113 accused persons in respect of same land scam, which is commonly known as ‘N.H. Ghotala in Uttarakhand’. It is further submitted by him that most of the accused persons have been enlarged on bail by this Court, and many of them have been given anticipatory bail by this Court. He further submitted that this is a case of parity. 6. Per contra, learned State counsel does not dispute this fact of the case being of parity with those who have already been released on bail or anticipatory bail. Some orders passed by this Court are also annexed by the applicant as Annexure No.4 in the paper book of this anticipatory bail application. 7. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the applicant- Lakhwinder Singh is directed to be released on Anticipatory Bail, in the event of his arrest, on his executing a personal bond of Rs.30,000/- and furnishing two reliable sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of the SHO concerned, on the following conditions:- (i) Applicant shall attend the court proceedings regularly and will 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 this Court. 8. The anticipatory bail application stands allowed accordingly. (Pankaj Purohit J.) 30.04.2025 Ravi