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2025:UHC:5976 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. 890 of 2025
Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mr. Pradeep Chamyal, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. Pankaj Joshi, learned A.G.A. for the State.
3. The present applicant ‘Satnaam Singh’ S/o Darbara Singh is praying for bail in relation to First Information Report dated 04.12.2024 bearing FIR No. 211 of 2024 P.S. Nanakmatta, District Udham Singh Nagar, wherein, the present applicant along with two others Binder Singh @ Sukhvinder and Angrez Singh were implicated and he has been chargesheeted for the offences punishable under Sections 109, 117(2), 351(2) and 352 of BNS, 2023.
4. It is contended by learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and submits that no specific role has been assigned to the present applicant and the chargesheet has already been filed and as such there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant and is languishing in jail since 25.04.2025.
5. Apart from this, it is also submitted that the applicant has a previous criminal history for the offences punishable under Sections 323 and 452 of BNS, 2023 in which he is already bailed out. He also submits that the applicant is a teacher in Zappier’s Academy, Khatima, and he has no nexus with the other co-accused.
6. On the other side, Mr. Pankaj Joshi, learned A.G.A. have not disputed this fact that the chargesheet has already been filed and, therefore, there is no need of the custodial interrogation of the present applicant.
7. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and further taking into
consideration that the chargesheet has already been filed and as such there is no need of the custodial interrogation of the present applicant,
2025:UHC:5976 this court is of the view that the applicant deserves for bail.
8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case the bail application is allowed.
9. Let the applicant ‘Satnaam Singh’ be released on bail on furnishing his personal bond and two sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned.
10. It is made clear that grant of bail to the present applicant will not be treated as a precedent in respect of the other accused.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 10.07.2025 PR
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