Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:46200 Court No. - 13 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7358 of 2025 Applicant :- Ranjeet Yadav Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home U.P. Lko. Counsel for Applicant :- Seema Kashyap Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Ms. Seema Kashyap, learned counsel for the applicant as well as Sri Prashant Tripathi, learned A.G.A. 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. 281/2023, under Section 364 I.P.C., Police Station Kunda, District Pratapgarh. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of F.I.R. lodged on 16.08.2023 against unnamed persons stating that the accused persons had kidnapped the informant's son in the evening at about 04:00 p.m. at 13.08.2023 but they themselves set him free at Heeraganj Road near Babhanpur. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the applicant disclosing his involvement in two other criminal cases in one of which the applicant has been granted bail and in other case the applicant has not been summoned till date. 5. Three co-accused persons Sonu @ Sanjay Saroj, Deepu @ Jitendra Kumar Vishwakarma and Abhishek Kumar Vishwakarma @ Bauwa have been granted bail by means of orders dated 15.03.2024, 02.01.2024 & 29.11.2023 passed by this Court in Criminal Misc. Bail Applications No. 13360 of 2023, 15200 of 2023 & 14017 of 2023 respectively. 6. Learned AGA has opposed the prayer for bail but he could not dispute the fact that the role assigned to the present applicant is similar to the role assigned to other co-accused persons who have been granted bail. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, I am of the view that the applicant is also entitled to be released on bail on the ground of parity. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant-Ranjeet Yadav 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 the 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. Order Date :- 7.8.2025 Pradeep/- Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench