IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Dated: Nainital: the 20th day of April, 2010 Ist Bail Application No. 440 of 2010 Order on the Bail application of accused. CRIMINAL SIDE Raj Kumar Kashyap .….Applicant (In jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …… Opposite Party Arising out of Case Crime No. 184/2004 (ST No. 13/2009), U/s 326, 504, 506, 304 IPC, PS Tanakpur, District Champawat. April 20, 2010 HON’BLE DHARAM VEER, J. Heard Mr. Yogesh Pacholia, Advocate for the applicant and Mr. Amit Bhatt, Addl. GA for the State. In brief, the prosecution case is this that on 11.6.2004 at about 8 pm the accused applicant thrown acid on Smt. Shakuntala, the wife of the complainant Suresh Kumar and due to the injury caused by the acid, lateron Smt. Shakuntala has died. Dying declaration of Smt. Shakuntala was also recorded. In the dying declaration Smt. Shakuntala has specifically stated that the applicant accused has thrown acid on her which he has taken in a plastic bucket. Post mortem report also reveals that the deceased died due to the extensive burn injuries. The contents of the FIR get corroborated from the dying declaration of Smt. Shakuntala as well as from the post mortem report. Specific allegation has been made against the applicant accused that he has thrown acid on Smt. Shakuntala and due to the injuries caused by the acid she has died and this fact get corroborated by the dying declaration of Smt. Shakuntala and even from the post mortem report. For the reasons recorded above and in view of the facts and circumstances of the case, I do not find any ground to release the accused applicant on bail. The bail application is rejected accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) 20.4.2010 PRABODH