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2023 DIGILAW 128 (UTT)

Mahant Satyanand v. State of Uttarakhand

2023-01-20

RAVINDRA MAITHANI

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JUDGMENT Ravindra Maithani, J. - Applicant Mahant Satyanand has sought anticipatory bail in FIR No.397 of 2022, under Sections 384, 506 IPC, Police Station Kotwali Kankhal, District Haridwar. He has sought his release on anticipatory bail. 2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 3. According to the FIR, the applicant is threatening the Sadhu Sant of Panchayati Akhada Bada Udaseen ('the Akhada'). The FIR records details of such acts. According to it, on 23.11.2022 at 02:30, when the informant was offering prayers near Ganges, some unknown persons threatened him to life that in case any action against the applicant and others. Those persons had masked them. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that, in fact, the co-accused Mahant Vanshi Das had already been granted anticipatory bail by this Court on 12.01.2023; the custodial interrogation of the applicant would not serve any purpose; the role of the applicant is similar to the co-accused, who has already been granted anticipatory bail. 5. Learned State counsel would submit that the State may not like to file any objection in it because the role of the applicant is not dissimilar to the co-accused, who had already been granted anticipatory bail. 6. Having considered, this Court is of the view that it is a case fit for anticipatory bail and the applicant deserves to be enlarged on anticipatory bail. 7. The anticipatory bail application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant be released on anticipatory bail, on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties, each of the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned. In addition to it, the applicant shall also comply with the following conditions: (i) The applicant shall co-operate with the investigation. (ii) The applicant shall not approach any witness/victim in any manner, whatsoever. (iii) The applicant shall not leave the country without prior permission of the concerned court. (iv) The applicant shall deposit his passport with the Investigating Officer. The passport may only be returned by the order of the court concerned. In case, if he does not have passport, he shall give an undertaking to that effect to the Investigating Officer. (v) The applicant shall also give an undertaking on (i), (ii) & (iii) above.