IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Bail Application (IA No.1 of 2025)

In Criminal Jail Appeal No.78 of 2022 Ashish Kashyap …… Appellant Vs.

State of Uttarakhand ……Respondent Presence:

Mr. Vikas Anand, learned counsel for the appellant.

Mr. V.S. Rawat, learned AGA for the State.

Mr. Sudhir Kumar, learned counsel for the informant.

Coram: Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J.

Hon’ble Siddhartha Sah, J.

Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. (Oral)

The instant appeal has been preferred against judgment and order dated 29.07.2022, passed in Sessions Trial No.11 of 2019, State Vs. Ashish Kashyap, by the court of 2^nd Addl. Sessions Judge, Haldwani, District Nainital. By it, the appellant has been convicted under Sections 302, 394, 411 of IPC and sentenced accordingly. The appellant seeks bail.

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

3. According to the prosecution, when PW1, Umesh Kumar, returned to his house on 09.09.2018, he found his brother lying on the bed with a rope tied around his neck. He took his brother, the deceased Manoj Kumar Kashyap, to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.

4. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the case is based on circumstant