Chandrakant Alias Major Chandrakant vs State Of Uttarakhand

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2024 Supreme(UK) 582

VIVEK BHARTI SHARMA
Chandrakant Alias Major Chandrakant – Appellant
Versus
State Of Uttarakhand – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicant : Mr. Harsh Taneja, learned counsel.
For the State : Mr. Deepak Bisht, learned DAG
For the Complainant : Mr. V.K. Guglani, learned counsel.

JUDGMENT :

(Vivek Bharti Sharma, J.)

Applicant Chandrakant @ Major Chandrakant is seeking anticipatory bail in F.I.R./Case Crime No. 149 of 2023, under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B of IPC, Police Station Kichha, District Udham Singh Nagar.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

3. Learned State Counsel would submit that applicant has an equally efficacious remedy available to file the anticipatory bail application before the Sessions Court but instead of approaching the Sessions Court, the applicant/accused has directly come before this High Court without exhausting equally efficacious remedy available before Sessions Court.

4. Learned counsel for the State would further submit that the issue regarding entertainability of anticipatory bail application before the High Court u/s 438 of Cr.P.C. is pending consideration before the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Criminal Appeal No.1562/2017 “Gauhati High Court Bar Association v. The State of Assam & Ors.” wherein the issue raised before the Hon’ble Supreme Court is that “Whether the High Court exercising jurisdiction under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has discretion not to entertain such