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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:66792 Court No. - 66 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 5426 of 2025 Applicant :- Saeed Khan Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Sharad Tiwari,Vivek Gangwar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sameer Jain,J.
1. Heard Sri Sharad Tiwari, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Vijay Kumar, learned AGA-I for the State.
2. The instant bail application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 391 of 2024, under Sections 302 IPC and Section 4/25/27 of Arms Act, Police Station Baradari, District Bareilly during pendency of the trial.
3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits, applicant is brother- in-law of the deceased and as per allegation he by inflicting knife injuries to deceased committed his murder but entire allegation leveled against the applicant is totally false.
4. He further submits, applicant is not having any criminal history and in the present matter he is in jail since 16.05.2024 i.e. for almost a year.
5. Per contra, learned AGA opposed the prayer for bail and submitted that incident has been witnessed by number of witnesses including wife of the deceased and they stated against the applicant and post mortem report also supports their version, therefore, applicant should not be released on bail.
6. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record of the case.
7. As per allegation, applicant, who is brother-in-law of the deceased committed his murder by inflicting knife injuries to him and incident has been witnessed by number of witnesses including wife of the deceased i.e. sister of the applicant. Further, post mortem report also supports their version.
8. Therefore, considering the facts and circumstances of the case
discussed above, I am not inclined to released the applicant on bail.
9. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the instant bail application is rejected.
10. It is clarified that the observations made herein are limited to the facts brought in by the parties pertaining to the disposal of bail application and the said observations shall have no bearing on the merits of the case during trial. Order Date :- 29.4.2025 AK Pandey Digitally signed by :- ANUPAM KUMAR PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ANUPAM KUMAR PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad