IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Ist Bail Application No.196 of 2010 Order on the Bail application of accused. CRIMINAL SIDE Ashok Saini ..….Applicant (In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …….Opposite party Dated: March 11, 2010 ____________________________________________________________________ Arising out of Case Crime No.467 of 2009 u/s 3/7 of Essential Commodities Act, P.S. Kotwali Manglore, District Haridwar ________________________________________________________________ Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Sri Parikshit Saini, Advocate for the applicant as well as Sri M.A. Khan, Brief Holder for the State and also perused the record. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that the applicant was the servant of co-accused Shaukat Ali who was the owner of the shop. It is further submitted that the applicant was not arrested from the spot and the recovery was also not made from his possession. It is further submitted that the co-accused Shaukat Ali has already been granted bail by this Court vide order dated 30.12.2009 and the present applicant is also entitled for bail on the basis of parity. It is pleaded that the applicant has no previous criminal history and he is in jail since 22.1.2010. Having considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties and after going through the papers on record, without expressing any opinion as to the final merits of the case, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves bail at this stage. Let the applicant-Ashok Saini be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and on furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Haridwar. The bail application as well as the urgency application no.883 of 2010 both stand disposed of accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 11.03.2010 RG