WPCRL/532/2021
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      IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
                             AT NAINITAL
                    SHRI JUSTICE S.K. MISHRA, A.C.J.


                                      AND


                        SRI JUSTICE R.C. KHULBE, J.

WRIT PETITION (CRL) NO. 532 OF 2021

11TH MARCH, 2022 Between:

    Monu Tyagi                                         ...Petitioner.

    and

    State of Uttarakhand and others.                  ...Respondents


    Counsel for the petitioner:              Ms. Prabha Naithani,
                                             learned counsel.

Counsel for the respondents: Mr. J.S. Virk, learned Deputy Advocate General with Mr Rakesh Kumar Joshi, learned Brief Holder for the State of Uttarakhand.

Upon hearing the learned counsel, the Court made the following:

JUDGMENT : (per Sri Justice S.K. Mishra, A.C.J.)

Ms. Prabha Naithani, the learned counsel for the

petitioner, submits that till today, the petitioner is in

need of police protection as threats are being received

by him from the Jail.

2. Mr. J.S. Virk, the learned Deputy Advocate

General for the State of Uttarakhand, submits that the

police protection is being provided to the petitioner

and in fact, an FIR has also been lodged against the

person, who has been giving threats to the petitioner.

After due investigation, a charge sheet has also been

filed.

3. In that view of the matter, we dispose of

the present writ application directing the S.S.P.,

Haridwar to take stock of the situation and to re-

assess the threat perception every month commencing

from the first week of April, 2022 and shall continue to

give protection, if the threat perception persists. The

disposal of the writ application shall not be given any

negative weightage by the S.S.P. concerned. He,

while deciding the matter, should re-assess the threat

perception and should take proper intelligence, and

also information from the SHO concerned.

____________

(S.K. MISHRA), A.C.J.

____________ R.C. KHULBE, J.

Dt: 11.03.2022 Rathour