HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Dated Nainital the 30th November, 2010 1st Bail Application No. 1024 of 2010 Order on the bail application of the accused. Dr. Sumit Sofat S/o Shri Jagdish Rai Sofat ……. Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand …….. Opposite Party In F.I.R. No. 365 of 2009 U/S 376, 377, 323, 506, 182, 211 and 120 (B) I.P.C. Police Station Kotwali District Dehradun Hon’ble Tarun Agarwala, J. Having heard Shri Pawan Mishra, the learned counsel for the applicant, Shri G.S. Sandhu, the learned Governmet Advocate for the respondent and having perused the First Information Report which has come on record and the fact that the co-accused Ravindra Kumar has been granted bail by the Court below and the role assigned to the co-accused as well as to the applicant is the same. Further, if it is a case of gang rape and one of the co-accused has been enlarged on bail by the court below, the accused/applicant is also entitled to be released on bail without expressing anything further on the merits of the case, let the applicant Dr. Sumit Sofat be enlarged on bail, on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two sureties each of Rs. 25,000/- to the satisfaction of Magistrate concerned. (Tarun Agarwala, J.) Dated 30.11.2010 Shiv