Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:47759 Court No. - 13 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 1033 of 2025 Applicant :- Ajeet Singh Yadav And Another Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Manoj Kumar Mishra,Ajay Kumar Verma,Bhairav Datt Sharma,Shubham Kumar Verma Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Shri Manoj Kumar MIshra, learned counsel for the applicants and Shri Ashok Kumar Srivastava, learned A.G.A. for the State. 2. The instant application has been filed by the applicants seeking anticipatory bail in F.I.R./Case Crime No.0695 of 2024, under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 I.P.C. registered at Police Station- Dewa, District- Barabanki. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 13.10.2024 against 12 persons including the applicants, stating that the informant had made investments of his own money and the money of several persons known to him in various schemes of companies of Time City Group between the years 2017-23 but no benefit was paid on the said investments. The applicants are directors of the company. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the anticipatory bail application, it has been stated that the applicants are innocent persons and they have been falsely implicated in the present case. The applicants' involvement in 12 other criminal cases has been disclosed in para 21 of the affidavit filed in support of the application. In two of the cases, the applicants have been granted bail and their arrest has been stayed in three cases and interim orders were passed by this Court in writ petitions filed by the applicants challenging the validity of the F.I.R. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that two co- accused persons, namely Reena Shukla and Pankaj Kumar Pathak, have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court and one another co-accused person, namely Ashok Singh, has been granted bail by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court. 6. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail and he has submitted that the investigation is still going on in the case. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view of the fact that the F.I.R. alleges non return of money invested in the company; that the chairman and another director of the company have already been granted anticipatory bail and another co-accused persons has been granted bail, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for granting anticipatory bail to the applicants. 8. In view of the above, the anticipatory bail application of the applicants is allowed. In the event of arrest/ appearance of applicants 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 applicants shall make himself/herself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required; (ii) that the applicants 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 applicants shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court. (iv) that the applicants shall appear before the trial court on each date fixed, unless personal presence is exempted; and (v) that the applicants shall not pressurize/ intimidate the prosecution witness. Order Date :- 14.8.2025 S. Shivhare Digitally signed by :- SHASHANK SHIVHARE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench