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2025:UHC:6019 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.1187 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Ms. Radha Arya, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holder for the State.
3. Present applicant–Vikrant S/o Trilok is seeking regular bail in relation to first information report dated 15.06.2025, bearing FIR No.0304 of 2025, Police Station Kotwali, District Haridwar, wherein the present applicant and one Pradyuman alias Chunnu have been implicated for the offences punishable under punishable 8/20 of the NDPS Act.
4. It is contended by learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and the alleged contraband, which is shown to be recovered from the present applicant, is 6.874 kilogram of Ganja, is below the commercial quantity.
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Learned counsel for the applicant further submits that there is no substantial compliance of Section 42, 50, 52 and 57 of the NDPS Act and the applicant has no previous criminal history and is languishing in jail since 16.06.2025.
6. On the other side, Ms. Meenakshi Sharma, learned Brief Holder for the State, have not disputed this fact that the alleged contraband, which is shown to be recovered from the present applicant, is 6.874 kilogram of Ganja, which is below the commercial quantity and the applicant has no previous criminal history, however, the investigation is still going on.
7. After hearing the
arguments as advanced by learned counsel for the parties
2025:UHC:6019 and further taking into consideration that the alleged contraband, which is shown to be recovered from the present applicant, is 6.874 kilogram of Ganja, is below the commercial quantity and the applicant has no previous criminal history, therefore, 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 present bail application is allowed.
9. Let the applicant, namely, ‘Vikrant,’ 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 after being released on bail, the applicant shall cooperate with the ongoing investigation, failing which, the prosecution is directed to move an application for cancelling the bail.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 11.07.2025 R.Bisht
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