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2025:UHC:6805 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s
order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
BA1/916/2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mr. Vaibhav Singh Chauhan, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. Siddharath Bisht, learned AGA with Mr. Himanshu Sain, learned Brief Holder the State.
3. Present applicant ‘Mohd. Tasleem, son of Shri Nawab’ is praying for regular bail in relation to First Information Report dated 11.03.2025 bearing FIR No. 0105 of 2025, Police Station – Ranipur, District – Haridwar wherein present applicant has been implicated for the offences punishable under Section 8/20 read with Section 60 of the NDPS Act.
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Learned counsel for the applicant submits that present applicant is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case and the contraband Ganja, which is shown to be recovered from the present applicant is below commercial quantity i.e. 5.537 kg.
5. He further submits that there is no substantial compliance of mandatory provisions of the NDPS Act and applicant is languishing in jail since 11.03.2025 and now, the charge-sheet has already been filed on 05.05.2025, therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation and the applicant has criminal history of one case relating to Section 304 IPC in which he is already bailed out.
6. On the other side, learned AGA for the State has not disputed this fact that charge sheet has already been filed, therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation and applicant is languishing in jail since 11.03.2025 and applicant is already bailed out in criminal case related to Section 304 IPC.
7. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties, and further taking into consideration that the applicant is languishing in jail since 11.03.2025 and charge-sheet has already been filed therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation, and the contraband, which is shown to be recovered from the applicant is below commercial quantity, 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 ‘‘Mohd. Tasleem, son of Shri
2025:UHC:6805 Nawab’’ 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 after being released on bail, the applicant will appear before the nearest police station on 1st day of every month and the SHO concerned shall record his presence. It is also made clear that if the applicant is found to be indulged in any criminal activity in future, then the prosecution is free to move an application for cancellation of his bail.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.)
01.08.2025. SKS
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