Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:33486 Court No. - 70 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 438 CR.P.C. No. - 12236 of 2024 Applicant :- Saurabh Singh And 2 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Manvendra Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Deepak Verma,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned AGA for the State and perused the material placed on record. 2. This anticipatory bail application has been moved seeking bail in Case Crime No. 91 of 2023, under sections 147, 148, 149, 160, 323, 307, 504, 506 I.P.C. and section 7 Criminal Law Amendment Act, P.S. Thariyaon, District-Fatehpur, till the conclusion of trial. 3. Counsel for the applicants submits that applicants have been falsely implicated in the present case. He next submits that the first information report was lodged by the police against 25 named and 15-20 unknown persons. He further submits that no one has sustained injury in the incident. He also submits that other co- accused (Kamlesh Singh and four others) and (Ajay an another) have approached this Court by means of Criminal Misc. Writ Petition Nos. 7731 of 2023 and 17544 of 2023 and this Court vide orders dated 19.5.2023 and 8.112023 granted interim protection to the petitioners till submission of police report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C. He further submits that chargesheet has been filed against co-accused but the investigation is going on against the present applicant. Lastly, it is submitted that the applicants are apprehensive of imminent arrest. In case, the applicants are released on bail, they would not misuse the liberty of bail and would cooperate with the investigation. 4. Learned AGA opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the applicants with the contention that the applicants are not entitled for anticipatory bail as prima facie case is made out. The apprehension of the applicants are not founded on any material on record, only on the basis of imaginary fear, the anticipatory bail cannot be granted. 5. Without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case and considering the nature of accusation and antecedents, the applicants are entitled to be released on anticipatory bail in this case for the limited period considering the exception considered by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Sushila Aggarwal Vs. State (NCT of Delhi)-2020 SCC Online SC 98. 6. Let the applicants- Surabh Singh, Raghvendra Pratap Singh @ Kallu Singh and Ashutosh Singh @ Pintu Singh, who are involved in the aforesaid crime, be released on anticipatory bail till submission of police report U/s 173(2) Cr.P.C., on furnishing a personal bond with two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial court concerned with the following conditions :- (i) The applicants shall make themselves available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required; (ii) The applicants shall not directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer; (iii) The applicants shall not leave India without the previous permission of the Court and if they have passport, the same shall be deposited by them before the S.S.P./S.P. concerned. 7. In default of any of the conditions, the Investigating Officer is at liberty to file appropriate application for cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to the applicants. 8. The Investigating Officer is directed to conclude the investigation of the present case in accordance with law expeditiously preferably within a period of three months from the date of production of a certified copy of this order independently without being prejudice by any observation made by this Court while considering and deciding the present anticipatory bail application of the applicants. 9. The present anticipatory bail application stands allowed. Order Date :- 7.3.2025 Faridul Digitally signed by :- FAREEDUL HASAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad