IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Ist Bail Application No.300 of 2009 Order on the Bail application of accused. CRIMINAL SIDE Sageer Ahmad S/o Kaluwa R/o Maheshpura, P.S. Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar ..….Applicant (In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …….Opposite party Dated: May 5, 2010 Arising out of Crime/FIR No.324/2008 U/Ss 302, 394 and 411 of IPC P.S. Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Mr. G.C. Lakhchaura and Mrs. Pushpa Joshi, Advocates for the applicant as well as Mr. Amit Bhatt, Additional Government Advocate for the State and also perused the record. Learned counsel for the applicant argued that the applicant is not named in the FIR, only one knife was said to have been recovered from the house of the applicant on the date when he was arrested by the police. It is further argued that the case rests upon the circumstantial evidence and the chain of circumstances is not complete against the applicant so as to connect him with the alleged crime. It is further argued that the co-accused Virendra Pal has already been released on bail by this Court vide order dated 14.1.2009 and the present applicant is also entitled for bail on the basis of parity. Having considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties; perusal of the contents of FIR and other papers available on record, without expressing any opinion as to the final merits of the case, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves bail at this stage. Let the applicant-Sageer Ahmad be released on bail on his executing personal bond and furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kashipur. The bail application is allowed accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 05.05.2010 RG