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0SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS
ABA No. 180 of 2026 Hon'ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Mr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey with Mr. Mehboob Rahi, learned counsel for the applicant.
2. Mr. Tumul Nainwal, learned AGA for the State.
3. Earlier to the instant anticipatory bail application, the applicant filed a WPCRL No. 636 of 2026 for quashing of First Information Report dated 15.03.2026 bearing FIR No. 0188 of 2026. In that petition i.e. WPCRL No. 636 of 2026 the learned counsel for the petitioner Mr. Bilal Ahmed after arguing at length submits that the petitioner is ready to surrender before the court concerned on or before 22.05.2026, however, only till then he may be given protection. On that day the State has no objection on such submission consequently the petition was dismissed with the liberty to the petitioner who is the applicant herein to surrender before the court concerned on or before 22.05.2026 and till then he was given protection that no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioner.
4. Today, Mr. Tumul Nainwal, the learned AGA raised a serious objection on this anticipatory bail application by submitting that in the WPCRL No. 636 of 2026 the present application gave an undertaking that he will surrender on or before 22.05.2026, despite this, instead of surrender before the court concerned he moved this application for seeking anticipatory bail.
5. Mr. Tumul Nainwal further submits that the applicant already move surrender application then in such an eventuality he has no right to move an anticipatory bail application rather after surrender he can move for regular bail.
6. In response to this, Mr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey submits that the applicant moved surrender application but by that time there was no forensic report therefore he withdraw the anticipatory bail application.
7. Be that as it may, since the applicant has gave an undertaking in WPCRL No. 636 of 2026 that he will surrender before the court concerned on or before 22.05.2026 then he has to abide by that undertaking. It appears that instead of surrendering before the court concerned now the instant anticipatory bail application is moved, this is completely an abuse of process of law, hence the instant anticipatory bail is dismissed being devoid of merit.
(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.)
26.05.2026 Nahid