Uttarakhand High Court
Ikbal Hussain Talukdar vs State Of Uttarakhand on 3 July, 2025
Author: Alok Kumar Verma
Bench: Alok Kumar Verma
2025:UHC:5668
IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
AT NAINITAL
THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR VERMA
03RD JULY, 2025
ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.515 OF 2025
Ikbal Hussain Talukdar ..... Applicant
Versus
State of Uttarakhand .....Respondent
Counsel for the Applicant : Mr. Mehboob Rahman
Sodial, Advocate
(through video
conferencing) with Mr.
Ashutosh Posti, Advocate.
Counsel for the Respondent: Mr. Pradeep Lohani, Brief
Holder.
Hon'ble Alok Kumar Verma,J.
The present Application has been filed by the
applicant-Ikbal Hussain Talukdar seeking anticipatory
bail in Case Crime No.270 of 2024, registered at
Kotwali Dehradun, District Dehradun under Sections
420, 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section
66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
2. Heard Mr. Mehboob Rahman Sodial, learned
counsel for the applicant and Mr. Pradeep Lohani,
learned Brief Holder for the State.
3. Mr. Mehboob Rahman Sodial, Advocate
submitted that as per the First Information Report, a
girl named Arya Singh, Professor Dev Vyas and his
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colleague Nirav Shah committed online fraud of a total
amount of Rs.5,27,580/- in the name of Trading.
4. Mr. Mehboob Rahman Sodial, Advocate
further submitted that the applicant is not named in the
first information report. He has been falsely implicated
in the present matter. He is a permanent resident of
District Cachar, Assam, therefore, there is no possibility
of his absconding. He does not have any criminal
antecedents. He was granted interim bail on
03.06.2025, and, the conditions of the interim bail have
not been violated by him.
5. Learned counsel for the State has submitted
that during the investigation a sum of Rs.3,000/- was
found in the bank account of the present applicant.
Apart from the said amount, no evidence has been
found against the present applicant.
6. Personal liberty under Article 21 of the
Constitution of India is very precious fundamental right
and it should be curtailed only when it becomes
imperative according to the peculiar facts and
circumstances of the case.
7. Having heard the submissions of learned
counsel for the parties and keeping in view of the facts
and circumstances of the case, without commenting on
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the merits of the case, the present Anticipatory Bail
Application is allowed and the order dated 03.06.2025,
granting interim bail to the applicant, is made absolute.
It is directed that in the event of arrest of the applicant
Ikbal Hussain Talukdar, he shall be released on
anticipatory bail on executing a personal bond of Rs.
30,000/- and two reliable sureties, each of the like
amount, to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer,
subject to the following conditions:-
(i) Applicant shall cooperate with the
Investigating Agency and he shall make
himself available for interrogation by a
police officer as and when required;
(ii) If the charge-sheet is filed, the
applicant shall attend the trial court
regularly and he shall not seek any
unnecessary adjournment;
(iii) Applicant shall not directly or indirectly
make any inducement, threat or promise to
any person, acquainted with the facts of
this case.
(iv) Applicant shall not leave the country
without the previous permission of the trial
court.
8. It is made clear that if the applicant misuses
or violates any of the conditions, imposed upon him,
the prosecution agency will be free to move the Court
for cancellation of the anticipatory bail.
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ALOK KUMAR VERMA, J.
Date:03.07.2025
Pant/
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