IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Ist Bail Application No.159 of 2010 Order on the Bail application of accused. CRIMINAL SIDE 1. Om Prakash 2. Tejendra Singh ..….Applicants (In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …….Opposite party Dated: March 29, 2010 ____________________________________________________________________ Arising out of Case Crime No.02 of 2010 Under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 170 of IPC, P.S. Shyampur, District Haridwar ________________________________________________________________ Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Sri G.S. Negi, learned counsel for the applicants as well as Sri Amit Bhatt, learned Additional G.A. for the State and also perused the record. Learned counsel for the applicants has submitted that the applicants are unemployed youths. In search of employment they came in contact with one Dr. Arvind Patwal, who personated himself as Food Sample Officer of Kumbh Mela 2010. The appointment letters dated 30.12.2009 were given to the applicants by Dr. Arvind Patwal wherein it was stated that the applicants have been appointed on contract basis for Kumbh Mela 2010. (Copy of said appointment letter is annexed as Annexure No.2). Thereafter on 2.1.2010 when the applicants joined their duties on the basis of appointment letters given to them, they were arrested by the police. Learned counsel for the applicants argued that the applicants joined the service in good faith. They have not committed any fraud and cheating rather they have been exploited by the co-accused Arvind Patwal. It is pleaded that the applicants have got no previous criminal history and they are in jail since 2.1.2010. 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 applicants deserve bail at this stage. Let the applicants-Om Prakash and Tejendra Singh be released on bail on executing a personal bond by each one of them and on furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of CJM, Haridwar. The bail application is disposed of accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 29.03.2010 RG