IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Ist Bail Application No.181 of 2010 Order on the Bail application of accused. CRIMINAL SIDE Girish Chandra Joshi ..….Applicant (In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …….Opposite party Dated: March 11, 2010 ____________________________________________________________________ Arising out of Case Crime No.689 of 2009 Under Sections 302 and 201 of IPC P.S. Bhatrojkhan, District Almora ________________________________________________________________ Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Lokendra Dobhal, 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 is not named in the FIR. It is a matter of circumstantial evidence and the chain of circumstances is not complete against the applicant so as to connect him with the above-said crime. It is further submitted that the applicant is a teacher in a government inter college and he is not at all involved in the said case. The applicant has been sent to jail only on the basis of doubt. It is pleaded that the applicant is in jail since 31.12.2009. Having considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties and after going through the papers on record, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves bail at this stage. Let the applicant-Girish Chandra Joshi 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, Almora. The bail application as well as the urgency application no.889 of 2010 both stand disposed of accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 11.03.2010 RG