Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings SL.

Date or directions and COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS No Registrar’s order with Signatures BA1 No. 839 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.

1. Ms. Nisha Bora, learned counsel for the applicant.

2. Mr. Siddharath Bisht, learned Assistant Government Advocate and Mr. Himanshu Sain, learned Brief Holder for the State.

3. Present applicant – Shoaib is seeking regular bail in relation to FIR dated 04.04.2025 bearing FIR No. 0003 of 2025, registered at Police Station Baluwakot, District Pitthoragarh, wherein the present applicant along with three other persons were implicated for the offences punishable under Section 179 and 180 of BNS, 2023.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the present applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated and, in fact, the alleged counterfeit money was recovered from the bag of the main accused Aasif and not from the possession of the present applicant and the applicant have no concern with the co-accused Aasif.

5. She further submits that there is no independent public witness towards the seizure memo though the alleged recovery took place in a public place. She also submits that the applicant has