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and Registrar’s order with Signatures BA1 No. 800 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.

1. Mr. Karan Singh Dugtal, learned counsel for the applicant.

2. Mr. Himanshu Sain, learned Brief Holder for the State.

3. Present applicant–Insaaf S/o Shri Shareef is seeking regular bail in relation to first information report dated 01.04.2025 bearing FIR No.0016 of 2025, Police Station Tallital, District Nainital, which was lodged against unknown person for the offence punishable under Section 318(4) of the BNS, 2023. After completion of the investigation, the charge-sheet has been filed on 29.05.2025.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and there is no money transaction in his account.

5. He further submits that the charge- sheet has already been filed and as such there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant and the applicant has no previous criminal history.

6. On the other side, learned State counsel submits that after collecting all credible evidences, the charge-sheet has been filed and earlier the applicant was not cooperating and that was the reason, he was arrested from Mathura.

He has also not disputed this fact that since the charge-sheet has already been filed, and as such, there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant.

7. After hearing the argument as advanced by learned counsel for the parties and further taking into consideration that since the charge-sheet has already been filed, and as such, there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant and the present applicant has no previous criminal history, therefore, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves for bail.

8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the present bail application is allowed.

9. Let the applicant, namely, Insaaf, be released on bail, on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned.

(Rakesh Thapliyal, J.)

02.07.2025 R.Bisht