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HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL
First Bail Application No.557 of 2025 Rajeev Deol
…..….....Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand
….….Respondent Present:- Mr. Mohd. Safdar, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. Virendra Singh Rawat, AGA for the State.
With First Bail Application No.558 of 2025 Kuldeep Singh
…..….....Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand
….….Respondent Present:- Mr. Mohd. Safdar, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. Virendra Singh Rawat, AGA for the State.
Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. (Oral)
Since both these bail applications arise from one and the same FIR, they are being heard together and decided by this common order.
2. The applicants Rajeev Deol and Kuldeep Singh are in judicial custody in FIR/Case Crime No.245 of 2018, dated 23.11.2018, under Sections 420, 465, 466, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, Police Station Dalanwala, District Dehradun. They have sought their release on bail.
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Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.
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According to the FIR, the applicants and the co-accused have been occupying the property belonging to the informant on the basis of forged documents.
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Learned counsel for the applicants would submit that they have not occupied any property of the informant; a will was executed in the name of the co- accused Sheela Maggi, who executed a gift deed in the year 2017 in favour of one Amit Megee; the applicants are only witnesses in the gift-deed; they are not the beneficiaries; they have not received any money; they have not forged the documents.
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Learned State Counsel admits these facts, but he would submit that once the applicants have taken the documents pertaining to this property.
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Having considered, this Court is of the view that it is a case fit for bail and the applicants deserve to be enlarged on bail.
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The bail application is allowed.
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Let the applicants be released on bail, on their executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties, each of the like amount, by each one of them, to the satisfaction of the court concerned.
(Ravindra Maithani, J.)
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