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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:33824 Court No. - 67 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 46843 of 2024 Applicant :- Pramod Kumar Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Surendra Narayan Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Vivek Varma,J.
1. Supplementary affidavit filed by counsel for the applicant is taken on record. 2. Heard learned Counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 3. The instant bail application, under Section 483 B.N.S.S., has been filed with a prayer to enlarge the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 232 of 2024, under Sections 305A, 317(2) B.N.S., Police Station- Bhagatpur, District- Moradabad, during pendency of the trial. 4. Counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant was not named in the first information report. The applicant was arrested on 09.09.2024 along with co-accused Asif and has been falsely implicated in the instant case. False recovery of a country made pistol, a live cartridge, a pair of anklet of while metal, a nose pin of yellow metal and Rs.1200/- has been shown from the applicant. There is no independent witness to the alleged recovery. Recovery of alleged articles cannot be connected with the offence. At this stage, there is no credible evidence to link the applicant with the offence. The criminal history of the applicant has been explained in paragraph no.2 of the supplementary affidavit. The applicant is in jail since 09.09.2024. In case he is enlarged on bail, he will not misuse the said liberty. 5. Learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail but could not satisfactorily dispute the aforesaid submissions from the record. 6. Having heard counsel for the parties and having perused the record, this Court prima facie finds that the applicant was not named in the first information report. There is no independent
witness to the alleged recovery. At present, there is no substantive evidence to link the applicant with the offence.
Further the applicant has presently remained confined for more than five months and there is no hope of early conclusion of trial, more so when no reasonable apprehension has been brought to the fore by the State that the applicant, if enlarged on bail, would either tamper with the evidence or intimidate the witness, without commenting on the merits of the case, I am of the opinion that the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. 7. Let the applicant, Pramod Kumar involved in the aforesaid case be released on bail on his furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of court concerned on the following conditions that: i. the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence; ii. the applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witness; iii. the applicant shall appear on each and every date fixed by the trial court. 8. In case of breach of any of the above conditions, the prosecution shall be at liberty to move bail cancellation application before this Court. Order Date :- 7.3.2025 Manish Kr Digitally signed by :- MANISH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad