HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Second Anticipatory Bail Application No.5 of 2025 Arif and another ..….....Applicants Versus State of Uttarakhand ….….Respondent Present:-

Mr. Shakib Husain, Advocate for the applicants.

Mr. Virendra Singh Rawat, AGA for the State.

Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. (Oral)

The applicant seeks anticipatory bail in FIR/Case Crime No.991 of 2022, dated 13.10.2022, under Sections 5/11 of the Uttarakhand Protection of Cow Progeny Act, 2007, Police Station Bhagwanpur, District Haridwar. This is the second anticipatory bail application of the applicant. His first Anticipatory Bail Application No.183 of 2023 has already been dismissed as withdrawn on 10.07.2024.

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

3. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that during investigation, the arrest of the applicant was stayed by the Court vide order dated 21.10.2022 in WPCRL No.1992 of 2022. He would submit that thereafter, the applicant has filed an anticipatory bail application which subsequently, he withdrew. It is argued that now charge-sheet has been filed.

5. These factual aspects have been accepted by the learned State counsel.

6. Having consi