IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Dated: Nainital: the 07th day of January, 2008 Criminal Bail Application No.20 of 2008 Order on the Bail application of accused CRIMINAL SIDE 1. Sonu S/o Khajan Singh, R/o Village-Gopalpur, P.S. Manglaur, District Haridwar. 2. Smt. Sona W/o Prem Singh, 3. Arvind S/o Prem Singh Both 2 & 3 R/o Ganga Nagar Colony, P.S. Ranipur, District Haridwar. ….Applicant(In Jail) Versus State of Uttarakhand …….Opposite Party Arising out of Case Crime No.315 of 2007 Under Section 302/364-A, 201 IPC, P.S. Kotwali Ranipur, District Haridwar. Hon’ble Dharam Veer, J. Heard Sri Rajendra Singh, learned counsel for the applicants and Sri Harish Pujari, learned Additional Government Advocate for the State. In brief, the prosecution case is that deceased Soni was married with Pravin in the month of 11/12 December 2006 and on 18.10.2007 she has gone somewhere along with the present applicants. With the same averments, the FIR was lodged by Palla, father of deceased Soni on 26.10.2007 at 00:20 A.M. in Police Station Ranipur, District Haridwar. Learned counsel for the applicants has submitted that as per the averments made in the FIR deceased Soni had gone from her house on 18.10.2007 and the FIR was lodged on 26.10.2007 and there is no explanation of delay in lodging the FIR, while the distance of the police station form the place of occurrence is five and half kilometers. He has further submitted that the dead body of the deceased was recovered on 25.10.2007 and after that the FIR was lodged. He has further submitted that against the present applicants there is only the last seen evidence and except this there is no other evidence collected by the I.O. during the investigation. He has further submitted that the applicants are in jail since 27.10.2007. After considering all the facts and circumstances, without expressing any opinion about the final merit of the case, this court is of the view that the present applicants deserve bail at this stage. Let applicants Sonu, Smt. Sona and Arvind be released on bail on their executing personal bonds and furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Haridwar. The bail application is disposed of accordingly. (Dharam Veer, J.) January 07, 2008 ARTI