2025:UHC:8550 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS BA3/30/2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Ms. Nisha Bora, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. G.S. Sandhu, learned Addl. Advocate General with Mr. Deepak Bhardwaj, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. The present applicant ‘Vikram Singh Bisht alias Bablu Bisht, son of Kalyan Singh’ is praying for bail in relation to First Information Report dated 20.12.2024 bearing FIR No. 0036 of 2024, P.S. – Thal, District Pithoragarh, wherein present applicant along with one Rajue Gaira @ Rakku have been implicated and chargesheeted for the offences punishable under Section 103, 238 and 3(5) of BNS, 2023. 4. First bail application was dismissed as withdrawn and the second bail application was converted into short term bail application due to demise of applicant’s father and now, this third bail application has been moved. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and there is no direct evidence against the applicant and whatever be the evidence has been collected by the I.O. is against the co-accused and present applicant has been implicated only on the basis of his confessional statement. She further argued that recovery of the stick, which was used in commission of crime, is on the pointing out of the co-accused. She further argued that charge sheet has been already filed and trial has been commenced therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation and applicant has no previous criminal history. 6. On the other side, Mr. G.S. Sandhu, learned Addl. Advocate General have argued that offence is grievous in nature, therefore, at this juncture, when the trial is going on, applicant does not deserve for bail, since it will affect the ongoing trial but he has not disputed this fact that charge 2025:UHC:8550 sheet has been already filed and trial has already been commenced, therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation and applicant has no previous criminal history 7. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and further taking into consideration the fact that applicant has no previous criminal history and the charge sheet has already been filed, therefore, there is need of custodial interrogation, as such, 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 instant third bail application is allowed. 9. Let the applicant ‘Vikram Singh Bisht alias Bablu Bisht, son of Kalyan 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 after being released on bail, applicant shall join the trial proceedings on each and every date and shall not seek any unnecessary adjournment, failing which the trial court shall be at liberty to take appropriate legal action against the applicant including for cancellation of bail. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 23.09.2025 SKS 2025:UHC:8550