p SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS C482 No.468 of 2023 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. Sushil Kumar, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. Gaurav Singh, learned counsel for the applicants. 2. Mr. Bhaskar Chandra Joshi, learned AGA for the State. 3. Mr. Pankaj Kaushik, learned counsel for respondent no.2. 4. It needs to be mentioned that applicant no.1-Laksh Chaturvedi has passed away during pendency of present C482 application. Endorsement to this effect has already been made in order dated 13.02.2025 passed by this Court. Hence, the present C482 application is dismissed qua applicant no.1-Laksh Chaturvedi. However, it shall survive qua other applicants. 5. By means of this present C-482 application, the applicants have challenged the summoning order dated 24.11.2022 as well as the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.579 of 2022, State vs. Laksh Chaturvedi and others, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate- II, Haridwar under Sections 323, 504, 498A IPC and Section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Police Station Kankhal, District Haridwar. 6. After arguing for a while, learned counsel for the applicants limited his prayer to the extent that applicants may be permitted to surrender before the court concerned and their bail application may be directed to be decided in light of judgment of Hon’ble Apex Court, passed in 2 Satender Kumar Antil vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and Another case reported in (2021) 10 SCC 773. 7. For the sake of convenience, relevant portion thereof is quoted hereinbelow:- “3.Category A(e) Bail applications of such accused on appearance may be decided without the accused being taken in physical custody or by granting interim bail till the bail application is decided.” 8. In such view of the matter, present C482 application is disposed of permitting the applicant nos.2 to 4 to surrender before the concerned court on or before 04.06.2025; if any bail application is moved on their behalf, the Court concerned is directed to decide the same in view of dictum of the Apex Court in the case of Satender Kumar Antil (Supra). 9. Pending application, if any, stands disposed of. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 19.05.2025 Ravi