Swami Ramarupananda vs State of Himachal Pradesh

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2025 Supreme(HP) 899

IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIRENDER SINGH
Swami Ramarupananda – Appellant
Versus
State of Himachal Pradesh – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicant :Mr. Ashok Sharma, Senior Advocate, with Mr. Vivekanand Negi, Mr. Vinod Chauhan and Ms. Anubhuti Sharma.
For the Respondent:Mr. Mohinder Zharaick, Additional Advocate General assisted by SHO Baldev Singh, SHO and ASI Jasbeer Singh, I.O., Police Station West, Shimla, H.P.

JUDGMENT :

Virender Singh, J.

The above-titled bail applications are being disposed of by the common order, as, all the five bail applications have been filed, in the same FIR, i.e. FIR No. 204 of 2024, dated 17^th November, 2024, registered under Sections 298, 194 (2), 191 (2), 191 (3), 190, 115 (2), 324 (4), 352, 351 (2), 196 (2), 117 (2), 118 (1), 118 (2), 132 and 121 (1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita(hereinafter referred to as ‘BNS’), with Police Station West, Shimla, District Shimla, H.P.

2. Apprehending their arrest in the above-noted FIR, these bail applications have been filed by the above-named applicants, under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (hereinafter referred to as ‘BNSS’), for passing a direction, in their favour, directing the Investigating Officer/police of Police Station West, District Shimla, H.P., to release them on bail, in the event of their arrest, in the above-noted FIR.

3. According to the applicants, they are innocent persons and have falsely been implicated, in this case, by the police. They have termed the case of the police, as false and frivolous.

4. The applicants have also given the history of the litigation, regarding the property