IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Original Jurisdiction Dated: Nainital: the 4th day of August, 2009 First Bail Application No. 294 of 2009 Criminal Side Pradeep Kumar S/o Shri Jai Prakash R/o Village Chitaura P.S. Jansath District Muzaffarnagar. ……...Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand ……….Opposite Party Arising out of Case Crime No. 13 of 2009 Under Sections: 395, 397, 412 I.P.C. P.S.: Khanpur District: Haridwar. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J Heard Shri Lok Pal Singh, learned counsel for the applicant and Shri Amit Bhatt, A.G.A. for the State. Applicant-Pradeep Kumar, who is in jail in connection with case crime No. 13 of 2009, relating to offence punishable under Sections 395, 397, 412 I.P.C., P.S.: Khanpur, District- Haridwar, has sought his release on bail. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant belongs to Muzaffarnagar. The incident is said to have taken place within the limits of P.S. Laksar. It is further submitted that it is hard to believe that the applicant after committing robbery of tractor trolley would roam around in Laksar for two weeks where after the tractor trolley is said to have been recovered. It is a joint recovery with other co-accused. It is also contended by learned counsel for the applicant that co-accused Virendra Tyagi, has already been enlarged on bail, vide order dated 18.03.2009, passed by Sessions Judge, Haridwar. Having heard 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 applicant deserves bail. Let the applicant- Pradeep Kumar, be released on bail on executing personal bond and furnishing two sureties, each of the like amount to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Haridwar. Dt. 04.08.2009 (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) S 2