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AJAY VERMA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO.

ABAIL/1151/2024 · 2025-09-08

Subhash Vidyarthi

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 438 CR.P.C. No. - 1151 of 2024 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Vijay Kumar, learned counsel for the applicant as well as Sri Ashok Kumar Srivastava, learned A.G.A. appearing on behalf of the State and perused the records. 2. The instant application has been filed by the applicant seeking anticipatory bail in F.I.R. bearing Case Crime No. 1028/2015, under Sections 420, 465, 471 IPC, Police Station Kotwali Shahar, District Hardoi. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 26.11.2015 against seven persons, not including the applicant, stating that the accused persons had participated in selection process for appointment to the post of Trainee Teacher in the year 2011 but upon verification, their TET certificates were found to be forged. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no previous criminal history. 5. Two co-accused persons Madhuri Verma and Surabhi alias Surabhi Chaturvedi have been granted anticipatory bail in the present case by means of the orders dated 04.01.2024 and 23.02.2024 passed by coordinate benchs of this Court in Anticipatory Bail Application Nos. 3096/2023 and 363/2024 respectively. 6. The learned AGA has opposed the anticipatory bail application and he has submitted that the allegations have been established in the investigation and a charge sheet has already been submitted. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the applicant is not named in the FIR; there is no allegation that the applicant had secured appointment on the basis of any forged certificate; two co- Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Vijay Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ajay Verma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) accused persons against whom similar allegations have been levelled has already been granted bail and the applicant has no criminal history and investigation stands concluded, I am of the view that the applicant is also entitled to be granted interim anticipatory bail. 8. In view of the above, the anticipatory bail application of the applicant is allowed. In the event of arrest/ appearance of applicant-Ajay Verma before the learned Trial Court in the aforesaid case crime, they shall be released on anticipatory bail on their furnishing personal bond and two solvent sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of S.H.O./Court concerned on the following conditions and subject to any other conditions that may be fixed by the Trial Court: (i). that the applicant shall make themselves available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required; (ii) that the applicant 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 him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence; (iii) that the applicant shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court. (iv) that the applicant shall appear before the trial court on each date fixed, unless personal presence is exempted; and (v). that the applicant shall not pressurize/ intimidate the prosecution witness. September 8, 2025 Pradeep/- ABAIL No. 1151 of 2024 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench