Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:48911 Court No. - 13 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 4161 of 2024 Applicant :- Ajeet Kumar Gupta @ Ajeet Gupta Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. Counsel for Applicant :- Vivek Kumar Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Shri Vivek Kumar Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant and Shri Shikha Sinha, learned A.G.A.-I for the State. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 0363 of 2020, under Sections 419, 420 and 406 IPC, Police Station Tarun, District Ayodhya /Faizabad. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 12.09.2020 against 6 named accused persons, including the applicant, alleging that some of the co-accused persons introduced themselves as officials of Anee Group of Companies/ Anee Bullion and they induced the informant to make investments in the company. The informant and numerous other persons made investments in the company but thereafter office of the company was closed and the amount invested was not refunded to the informant. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and she has been falsely implicated in the present case describing herself to be Director of the company whereas the applicant was employed in the company as Manager. 5. In para 16 of the affidavit filed in support of bail application there is a mention of applicant's involvement in total 166 criminal cases including the present case filed by the persons who had made investments in the aforesaid company. The applicant has been granted bail in several cases of similar nature and copies of her bail orders are annexed as Annexure No.6 to the bail application. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that several co-accused persons have been granted bail in the present case. One Basudev Goswami, who has also been described as Director of the company, has been granted bail by means of an order dated 25.05.2022 passed by this Court in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 3693 of 2022; four other directors have also been granted bail. 7. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail but he could not dispute the aforesaid aspects of the matter. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the FIR does not contain allegation of any act of commission by the applicant; that several co-accused persons, including a person described as Director of the company have already been granted bail and that the applicant has also been granted bail in several other similar cases, without making any observation, which may affect the merits of the case, 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- Ajeet Kumar Gupta @ Ajeet Gupta 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 :- 20.8.2025 -Amit K- Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench