IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr.MP(M) No. : 2386 of 2025 Reserved on : 07.11.2025 Decided on : 14.11.2025

Rakesh Kumar …Applicant

Versus

State of Himachal Pradesh …Respondents

Coram

The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Virender Singh, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?1

For the applicant : Mr. Pawan Gautam, Advocate.

For the respondent : Mr. H.S. Rawat, Additional Advocate

General, with Ms. Ranjna Patial & Ms. Avni Kochhar Mehta, Deputy Advocate General, for the

respondent.

Mr. Sanjeev Bhushan, Senior Advocate with Mr. Rakesh Chauhan,

Advocate for the complainant.

Virender Singh, Judge

Applicant-Rakesh Kumar has filed the present

application, under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as ‘BNSS’), for releasing him, on bail, during the pendency of the trial,

1 Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes.

in case FIR No.40 of 2024, dated 24.05.2024, registered under Sections 302, 323, 325, 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, (hereinafter referred to as the ‘IPC’)

with Police Station Sujanpur, District Hamirpur, H.P.

2. According to the applicant, he is innocent person and has falsely been implicated, in the prese