UKHC010184142023 2026:UHC:7319 Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedingsSL. Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERSNo. and Registrar’s order with Signatures ABA/1035/2023 Ali Jan --Applicant Versus State Of Uttarakhand --Respondent Hon'ble Alok Mahra, J. Mr. Mohd. Safdar, learned counsel for the applicant. Mr. R.K. Joshi, learned A.G.A. for the State of Uttarakhand. 2. By means of the present application, the applicant seeks grant of anticipatory bail in connection with Range Case No. 22 of 2023, registered at Range Khatima, Udham Singh Nagar, for the offence punishable under Section 51 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. 3. The Coordinate Bench of this Court, vide order dated 22.11.2023, granted interim anticipatory bail to the applicant. In compliance with the conditions stipulated therein, the applicant has duly cooperated with the investigation as and when called upon by the Investigating Officer. 4. Learned State Counsel submits that the trial is going on and the applicant has been cooperating with the investigation. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant further submits that, pursuant to the interim protection granted by this Court, the applicant has cooperated throughout the investigation and has not misused the liberty so granted to him. It is further submitted that the trial is going on and no custodial interrogation of the applicant is required at this stage. 6. Having heard learned counsel for UKHC010184142023 2026:UHC:7319

the parties and upon perusal of the material available on record, this Court finds that the applicant has remained protected by virtue of the interim order dated 22.11.2023 and has duly complied with the conditions incorporated therein by extending full cooperation during the course of investigation. No material has been placed before this Court to indicate that the applicant has either misused the liberty granted to him or failed to cooperate with the investigating agency. 7. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the order passed by the Coordinate Bench in the proceedings under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the conduct of the applicant during the period of interim protection, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, this Court is of the considered opinion that the applicant has made out a case for confirmation of the interim anticipatory bail granted vide order dated 22.11.2023. 8. Consequently, the interim anticipatory bail granted to the applicant vide order dated 22.11.2023 is hereby confirmed and made absolute. The applicant shall remain on anticipatory bail on the same terms and conditions as contained in the aforesaid order. 9. Accordingly, the present Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. (Alok Mahra, J.) 17-08-2026 BINJOLAUTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH postalCode=263001,

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