UKHC010100132025 2026:UHC:5714 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS ABA/745/2025 Mohd Asif --Applicant Versus State Of Uttarakhand --Respondent Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Mr. Abhishek Verma, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. Rakesh Kumar Joshi, A.G.A. and Mr. Manoj Bhatt, Brief Holder for the State of Uttarakhand. 2. Applicant seeks anticipatory bail in connection with F.I.R. No.171 of 2025, under Section 127, 143 and 351(2) of B.N.S., 2023, registered at Police Station Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the present case and has been made a scapegoat on account of ulterior motives. It is further submitted that the investigation has already been concluded and the charge-sheet has been filed before the competent Court. During the course of investigation, the Investigating Officer did not find it necessary to arrest the applicant, which itself demonstrates that custodial interrogation of the applicant was never required. Learned counsel further submits that the applicant has fully cooperated with the investigation, appeared before the Investigating Officer whenever required, UKHC010100132025 2026:UHC:5714 and there is no allegation that he has misused the liberty extended to him during the investigation. It is also contended that all the offences alleged against the applicant are punishable with imprisonment of less than seven years. 4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering that the investigation has already culminated in filing of the charge-sheet, the applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation, and custodial interrogation is no longer required, this Court is of the opinion that no further orders are required to be passed on the present anticipatory bail application. The applicant shall be at liberty to appear before the Court concerned and move an application seeking regular bail. In the event such an application is filed, the Court concerned shall consider and decide the same expeditiously, strictly in accordance with law, on its own merits, and without insisting upon the applicant’s surrender in the first instance, keeping in view the fact that the applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation. 5. With the aforesaid observations and directions, the present anticipatory bail application stands disposed of. (Alok Mahra, J.) 13.07.2026 Arpan ARPAN JAISWAL Digitally signed by ARPAN JAISWAL DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=eabb68a3895e41937c266c23964c0485365445e3a20dddb739339 8f9fe45ba3e, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=060FC17022BEAE3DE215D68D9D454C5109CB987446351E4 DF04AADAA2C2CEA66, cn=ARPAN JAISWAL Date: 2026.07.13 16:59:14 +05'30'