IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Criminal I Bail Application No.170 of 2010 Order on the Bail application of accused CRIMINAL SIDE Sumit @ Somit S/o Mahak Singh R/o Village Kundeshwari P.S. Kashipur Distt. U.S. Nagar ……….Applicant (In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand ------- Opposite party ________________________________________________________ Arising out of FIR No.314 of 2009, U/s 302/120-B IPC & 3(2)5 of SC/ST Act, P.S. Kashipur, District U.S. Nagar Dated: March 30, 2010 Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Mr. Navneet Kaushik, Adv. for the applicant and Mr. Amit Bhatt, learned Addl. G.A. for the State. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that he is not named in the FIR and the case rests upon the circumstantial evidence and the chain of the circumstance is not complete to connect him with the aforesaid crime. Further, co-accused Ram Narayan Shukla has been granted bail by this Court on 20.1.2010 and the applicant also deserves bail on the basis of parity. Lastly, he is in jail since last more than six months and has no previous criminal history. After considering all the facts and circumstances, perusing the contents of the FIR and other papers available on record, without expressing any opinion about the final merits of the case, the Court is of the view that the present applicant deserves bail at this stage. Let the applicant Sumit @ Somit be released on bail on his executing personal bond and furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of C.J.M., U.S. Nagar. The bail application is allowed accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 30.03.2010 Rajeev Dang