Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:28425 Court No. - 15 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 4159 of 2025 Applicant :- Raman Pal Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. Counsel for Applicant :- Prashant Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Sri Prashant Srivastava, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Arvind Kumar Pandey, 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.0372 of 2024, under Sections 103(1) and 238 B.N.S., registered at Police Station Manjhila, District Hardoi. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 19.11.2024 against three persons i.e. Ramanpal, Pinki and Jaikesh Pal (the applicant), stating that the informant's son aged 22 years had gone missing at about 3 p.m. on 10.11.2024 regarding which a missing report was given to the police on the same day. The skeleton of informant's son and his clothes were found in a sugarcane field on 18.11.2024. The informant expressed apprehension that the accused persons had killed his son. He stated that he had identified the skeleton from the clothes present near it. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is a young man aged 22 years having no criminal history and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. 5. In the statement of the informant recorded under Section 180 B.N.S.S., he reiterated the FIR version. 6. Some independent witnesses have stated that people were talking that the deceased was having a love-affair with the co-accused Pinki. The deceased had some objectionable photos/videos of Pinki and he was not agreeing to delete the photos and videos. The co-accused Pinki told it to the co-accused/Jaikesh Pal @ Jagesh, who is her second lover and, therefore, the accused persons killed the deceased. 7. The postmortem examination report mentions that the body was in a skeleton condition and cause of death and time of death could not be ascertained. 8. It has also been submitted on behalf of the applicant that co-accused Jaikesh Pal @ Jagesh and Pinki have already been enlarged on bail by this Court by means of an orders dated 17.04.2025 and 05.05.2025, passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application Nos. 3203 of 2025 and 3816 of 2025 respectively. 9. The learned Additional Government Advocate has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and a charge-sheet has been submitted against all the three accused persons on 15.12.2024. 10. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the deceased had gone missing on 10.11.2024 and the skeleton was discovered on 18.11.2024; normally a dead-body cannot be converted into a skeleton in a short span of about a week; the dead-body had turned into skeleton and the clothes present on it are not said to have been mutilated; that besides suspicion, there is no other material at this stage, which may even prima facie establish involvement of the present applicant in commission of the offence; that the applicant is a young man having no criminal history and he is languishing in jail since 19.11.2024, whereas the investigation already stands concluded and both the co-accused persons Jaikesh Pal @ Jagesh and Pinki have already been enlarged on bail, 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. 11. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 12. Let the applicant-Raman Pal be released on bail in the aforesaid 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, unless her appearance is exempted by the learned trial court. (Subhash Vidyarthi, J.) Order Date :- 15.5.2025 Ram. Digitally signed by :- RAM SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench