IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Dated: Nainital the 21st day of July 2005 Second Bail application No.357 of 2005 Order on the bail application of accused CRIMINAL SIDE Soban Singh S/o Sh. Alam Singh R/o Village-Dabalgaon, Patty-Iria Kot talla-4 Tehsil Dhumakot, District-Pauri Garhwal ….…. Applicant. Versus State of Uttaranchal ….Opposite Party _________________________________________________________ Arising out of Case Crime No. 9/2003 (S.T.No. 39/2003) U/S 396 of I.P.C. P.S. IriaKot talla Tehsil Dhumakot District Pauri Garhwal. _________________________________________________________ By the Court Hon’ble Irshad Hussain, J. Heard Sri Atul Bahuguna holding brief of Sh. Vinod Nautiyal learned counsel for the applicant and Sh. D.K. Sharma learned GA for the State. This is a second bail application mainly on the ground that despite the fact that few witnesses have been examined in Session trial No. 39/03, the same has not yet been disposed of since long. Mere delay cannot be ground for released on bail. Considering this the application is rejected,. The learned Session judge is directed to dispose of the Session trial expediously, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the copy of the order. (Justice Irshad Hussain) Dated:- 21.07.2005 MK