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2025:UHC:3685 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s
order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
BA1 No. 641 of 2025
Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mr. Priyanshu Gairola, learned legal aid counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. Siddhartha Bisht, learned A.G.A. with Mr. Himanshu Sain, learned Brief Holder for the State.
3. The present applicant ‘Sourabh’ S/o Jasveer is praying for regular bail in relation to First Information Report dated 18.09.2024 bearing FIR No. 383 of 2024 P.S. Ranipur, District Haridwar, wherein, the present applicant has been implicated along with three other persons for the offences punishable under Sections 178, 179, 180, 181, 182 r/w Section 61(2) of B.N.S., 2023.
4.
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and there is no independent witness and is languishing in jail since 18.09.2024 and is not convicted in any other case.
5. Apart from this, he submits that the other two co accused namely Nikhil Kumar and Anant Veer have already been enlarged on bail by this court though the bail application of one of the co- accused was rejected.
6. Apart from this, he submits that the chargesheet has already been filed and there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant.
7. On the other side, learned State counsel have not disputed this fact that the two co accused have already been enlarged on bail and the role of the person whose bail has been rejected is entirely different. Learned State counsel have also not disputed this fact that since the chargesheet has been filed, therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation.
8. In view of the submission as advanced by the learned counsel for the parties, since the chargesheet has been filed, therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation, this court is of the
2025:UHC:3685 view that the applicant deserves for bail.
9. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the bail application is allowed.
10. Let the applicant ‘Sourabh’ 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.) 08.05.2025 PR