JUDGMENT

Hon'ble Alok Kumar Verma, J.

These two bail applications are the second bail applications for grant of regular bail to the applicants/accused persons, who have been arrested in connection with FIR No.568 of 2017, registered with Police Station Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar for the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC. The first bail applications of these two applicants have been rejected by the Co-ordinate Bench of this High Court vide order dated 29.08.2020, passed in BA1 No.584 of 2018, “Vineet vs. State of Uttarakhand" and BA1 No.596 of 2020 “Praveen Dhama alias Dumpy Dhama vs. State of Uttarakhand" respectively.

2. Facts, to the limited extent, are that an FIR was lodged at 00.10 hrs. on 30.09.2017. According to the first information report, on 29.09.2017 at 08.00 p.m., when the informant Rakesh Kumar along with his brother Amendra Pal Singh alias Bittu (deceased) and his nephew Sanjeev Pal Singh was returning home on a scooty, the present applicants along with another co-accused stopped them and started firing. The informant, the deceased Amendra Pal Singh alias Bittu and Sanjeev Pal Singh tried to run away, but the applicants shot Amendra Pal Singh alias Bi