IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Second Bail No. 111 of 2010 Mohd. Hanif ……..Applicant (in jail). Versus State of Uttaranchal ….Respondent. Present: Mr. S. K. Agarwal, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. S. S. Bhandari, Advocate for the applicant. Mr. Nandan Arya, AGA for State of Uttarakhand/respondent. Date of Decision: 28.08.2010 Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J (Oral) Counter affidavit filed on behalf of the State in the Court today is taken on record. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as the learned AGA for the State of Uttarakhand. This is second bail application of the applicant before this Court. The first bail application of the applicant was rejected by a learned Single Judge of this Court vide order dated 9.7.2010. Normally, the second bail applications are heard by the same judge but this application has been nominated to this Bench by the Hon’ble Chief Justice. Hence, it has been heard and is being disposed of by this Bench. The only ground alleged before this Court in the second bail application is that after 9.7.2010 one of the main witnesses, namely, Nanhe got hostile. Merely because one of the main witnesses has become hostile it is not a good ground for interference in second bail application, as it has already been recorded by the learned Single Judge rejecting the first bail application that the crime is too heinous where a minor girl aged 14 years has been raped and subsequently murdered. This Court finds no good ground for granting bail to the accused. Second bail application is liable to rejected and is hereby rejected. No order as to cost. 28.08.2010 Kuldeep (Sudhanshu Dhulia, J)