SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS UKHC010112702026 ABA/262/2026 Mustafa --Applicant Versus State Of Uttarakhand --Respondent Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Mr. Vikas Kumar Guglani, Advocate for the applicant. 2. Mr. Pushpa Bhatt, Additional Advocate General alongwith Mr. S.C. Dumka, A.G.A. for the State. 3. By means of the present anticipatory bail application, applicant seeks anticipatory bail in connection with FIR No. 86 of 2026 dated 25.05.2026, registered at Police Station – Pulbhatta, District Udham Singh Nagar. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the applicant is wholly innocent and has falsely been implicated in the case; that the impugned F.I.R. has been lodged on false, fabricated and concocted allegations. 5. During the course of arguments, learned counsel for the applicant submits the offences alleged in the impugned F.I.R. are punishable with imprisonment, which does not exceed seven years. Thus, the anticipatory bail application may be disposed of with a direction to the concerned Station House Officer to follow the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, passed in ‘Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar and Another’, reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273, before he proceeds to arrest the applicant. It is further submitted that the applicant undertakes to cooperate with the investigation in all respects and shall appear before the Investigating Officer as and when required. 6. Learned State Counsel has no objection on the above submission of the learned counsel for the applicant. 7. In view of the above, the present anticipatory bail application is disposed of with a direction to the Station House Officer, Police Station – Pulbhatta, District Udham Singh Nagar and the Investigating Officer to follow the guidelines formulated by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in ‘Arnesh Kumar vs. State of Bihar and Another’, reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273. 8. It is clarified that in the event the Investigating Officer forms an opinion that arrest of the applicant is necessary, the statutory requirements prescribed under law shall be complied with in letter and spirit. 9. Pending applications, if any, also stand disposed of accordingly. (Alok Mahra J.) 15.07.2026 Ujjwal