Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:19529 Court No. - 15 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2894 of 2025 Applicant :- Chhotkau Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Garima Singh,Ajeet Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Ms. Garima Singh, the learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Satyendra Srivastava, the learned Additional Government Advocate for the State and perused the records. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 445 of 2024, under Section 105 B.N.S., Police Station Kotwali Bhinga, District Shrawasti. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 03.11.2024 against the applicant, his bother Ram Murat and two unknown persons, stating that the informant's son Harish Chandra had got married to daughter of the named accused person's sister. Wife of Harish Chandra had committed suicide by hanging and thereafter a settlement had been entered into. When the informant's son was returning after seeing a dance performance at about 01:30 a.m. on 28.10.2024, the accused persons had beaten him due to which he fell unconscious. The informant got this information in the morning from some villagers. His son was taken to the District Hospital Bhinga, Shrawasti, from where he was referred to the District Hospital Bahraich. During treatment, he regained consciousness and told about the incident to the informant and thereafter he died in the hospital. The FIR was lodged after performing last rites of the deceased. The post mortem examination report mentions numerous contusions on various parts of the dead body and some abrasions over left interior chest wall. The cause of death has been opined to be hemorrhage and shock due to ante mortem injuries. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent, he has been falsely implicated in the present case due to old animosity. 5. A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the applicant disclosing his involvement in another case relating to the year 2003, in which he has been granted bail. However, a copy of the bail order has not been annexed with the supplementary affidavit. 6. The learned AGA has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the informant has supported the FIR in his statement. He has further stated that the Investigating Officer has recorded the statement of another person Puttan, who had seen the injured lying on the road and who had given its information to the informant. The learned AGA has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and charge sheet has been submitted on 06.01.2025. 7. The applicant is languishing in jail since 01.12.2024. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the FIR itself states about an old animosity between the informant and the accused persons arising out of the incident in which wife of the deceased (niece of the named accused persons) had died in unnatural circumstance; the incident occurred in the night of 28.10.2024, the victim died during treatment in the hospital on 29.10.2024, the post mortem examination took place on 30.10.2024 and the FIR has been lodged on 03.11.2024 and there is no explanation for this delay; the deceased had suffered multiple injuries contusions and abrasions and there is no allegation/evidence of use of any weapon in commission of the offence; the incident has not been witnessed by any person and the applicant is languishing in jail since 01.12.2024 whereas the investigations already stands concluded, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail in the aforesaid crime. 9. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 10. Let the applicant-Chhotkau be released on bail in the aforementioned case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of magistrate/court concerned, subject to following conditions:- (i) the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence; (ii) the applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witnesses; (iii) the applicant shall appear on each and every date fixed by the trial court. . [Subhash Vidyarthi, J.] Order Date :- 7.4.2025 Pradeep/- Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench