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2025 DAILYLAW 5979 (UTT)

GAUTAM v. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND

BA2/96/2025 · 2025-08-22

Ravindra Maithani

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HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Second Bail Application No.96 of 2025 Gautam …..….....Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand ….….Respondent Present:- Mr. Priyanshu Gairola, Advocate for the applicant appeared through video conferencing. Mr. Siddharth Singh Bisht, Brief Holder for the State. Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. (Oral) The applicant is in judicial custody in FIR No.417 of 2023, dated 29.09.2023, under Sections 8/22/60 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Police Station Raipur, District Dehradun. This is the second bail application of the applicant. His first bail application has already been rejected on 04.06.2024. He has sought his release on bail. 2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the entire case is false; in the Arrest Memo, the FIR number has been recorded, which was lodged much after the alleged recovery. 4. Learned State Counsel admits that the Arrest Memo records the FIR number. 5. The Court posed a question, how is it possible? He submits that there is no document to explain it. 2 6. Having considered, this Court is of the view that it is a case fit for bail and the applicant deserves to be enlarged on bail. 7. The bail application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant 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. (Ravindra Maithani, J.) 22.08.2025 Sanjay SANJAY KANOJIA Digitally signed by SANJAY KANOJIA DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=e50e50b49596520698eff87e0a08bbd504686df4d1afc60f54a287 831dec46fe, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=26EEB7122ED0DD23233A255DD8EC450A84B515A087CAE FD1B3179A7DEAE40699, cn=SANJAY KANOJIA Date: 2025.08.22 18:26:38 +05'30'