IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Dated: Nainital: the 20th day of October, 2010 1st Bail application No. 910 of 2010 Order on the bail application of accused CRIMINAL SIDE Prashant Kumar … Applicant Vs State of Uttarakhand … Opposite Party ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arising out of Case Crime No. 147 of 2010 Under Sections 307 and 504 of I.P.C. Police Station Jaspur District Udham Singh Nagar By the court Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Sri R.P. Nautiyal, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Lokendra Dobhal, Advocate for the complainant and Sri Amit Bhatt, learned Addl. G.A. for the State. Learned counsel for the accused/applicant has argued that as per the prosecution case on the exhortation of Beer Singh, Prashant Kumar (co-accused) caused firearm injury upon Rajendra Pratap Singh on 14.08.2010 at 08:30 a.m. and F.I.R. was lodged on the same day by Mahendra Pratap Singh. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that there was a cross case and Smt. Devwati also lodged a F.I.R. against Rajendra Pratap Singh, Ved Prakash, Vikey @ Narendra and Guddu; the case was registered against them under Sections 307, 452, 354, 323, 504 and 506 of I.P.C. and this F.I.R. was lodged on the same day i.e. 14.08.2010 at 05:15 p.m. He has further argued that F.I.R. was lodged by both the parties. He has also argued that Devwati has received ten injuries and her injury report has been filed as annexure 4 to the bail application. He further submitted that the injuries are on both the sides and at this stage it cannot be ascertained as to which of the parties is aggressor. After hearing learned counsel for the parties and perusing the papers available on record and without expressing any opinion about the final merits of the case, the Court is of the view that the applicant deserves bail at this stage. Let the applicant be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of C.J.M., Udham Singh Nagar. Bail application is allowed accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 20.10.2010 ASWAL