IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Original Jurisdiction Dated: Nainital: the 11th day of May, 2010 Second Bail Application No. 32 of 2010. Criminal Side Mahant Vedanand Saraswati @ Ved Prakash Sharma S/o Sri Jagdish Prasad R/o Sharda Dham Near Ranipur Jhal Jwalapur, District Haridwar ……...Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand, through its Secretary Home, Dehradun. ……….Opposite Party Arising out of Crime No. 58 of 2009 Under Sections: 386, 506 IPC. P.S. Clementown, Dehradun District: Dehradun. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J Heard Shri S.K. Agarwal, Senior Advocate, assisted by Shri Yashveer Sethi, Advocate, present for the applicant. Shri M.A. Khan, Brief Holder, present for the State. Applicant- Mahant Vedanand Saraswati @ Ved Prakash Sharma who is in jail in connection with crime No. 58 of 2009, relating to offences punishable under Sections 386, 506 I.P.C, P.S. Clementown , Dehradun, has sought his release on bail through this second bail application. The first bail application of the applicant was rejected by this Court on merits, after hearing the parties, on 15.2.2010. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that in substance it is a case of criminal intimidation. Now the applicant is in jail for almost six months. Though he has a criminal history, and he has been declined bail in crime No. 49 of 2009, which is serious in nature, but so far as this case pertains, in the opinion of this Court considering the period for which the applicant is in jail, now he deserves bail. Let the applicant- Mahant Vedanand Saraswati @ Ved Prakash Sharma be released on bail on his executing personal a bond and furnishing two sureties, each of the like amount to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun, in connection with crime No. 58 of 2009, relating to offences punishable under section 386, 506 I.P.C. Dt. 11.05.2010 (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Parul