2025:UHC:3932 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. 826 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Ms. Nisha Bora, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. Present applicant–Sameer Ul Rahman S/o Shri Ateeq Ul Rahman is seeking bail in relation to FIR No.0003 of 2025, registered on the basis of FIR dated 04.04.2025 at Police Station Baluwakot, District Pitthoragarh, wherein the present applicant along with three other persons were implicated for the offences punishable under Section 179 and 180 of BNS, 2023. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the present applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and, in fact, the alleged counterfeit money was recovered from the bag of the other co-accused, namely, Aasif and not from the possession of the present applicant and the applicant have no concern with the co-accused Aasif. 5. She further submits that there is no independent public witness towards the seizure memo though the alleged recovery took place in a public place. She also submits that the applicant has no previous criminal history. 6. On the other side, learned State counsel have not disputed this fact that the applicant has no previous criminal history, however, towards the recovery, he submits that counterfeit currency of amount of Rs.7,000/- is recovered from 2025:UHC:3932 the present applicant. 7. After hearing the arguments as advanced by learned counsel for the parties and further taking into consideration that the applicant has no previous criminal history, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves to be enlarged on bail. 8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the present bail application is allowed. 9. Let the applicant, namely, Sameer Ul Rahman, be released on bail, on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned. 10. It is made clear that granting bail to the present applicant will not be treated as a precedent in respect of other co- accused. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 15.05.2025 R.Bisht 2025:UHC:3932