IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHANDAT NAINITAL

Second Bail Application No.199 of 2025

Munesh Yadav @ Mukesh Yadav ...Applicant (In Jail)

Vs.

State of Uttarakhand ...Respondent Presence: Mr. Vikas Anand and Mrs. Gyan Mati Kushwaha, learned counsel for the

Applicant.

Mr. Girish Chandra Joshi, learned A.G.A. for the State.

Hon’ble Ashish Naithani, J.

1. The present matter arises on the second bail application preferred

by the Applicant, Munesh Yadav @ Mukesh Yadav, under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, seeking his enlargement on bail in connection with FIR No. 217 of 2024 registered under Sections 302, 201, and 120B IPC at Police Station Sitarganj, District Udham Singh Nagar. His first bail application was rejected by

this Court on 19.02.2025.

2. The allegations against the Applicant are that, in conspiracy with

family members, he staged his own death by planting his Aadhaar card and belongings on an unidentified dead body, which was thereafter

falsely identified as his own.

3. It is further alleged that to effectuate this design, the Applicant

was complicit in the murder of one Maninder Singh, whose body was allegedly passed off as that of the Applicant. The conspiracy is