HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8016 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Salman Abbas, the learned counsel for the applicant as well as Sri Rajnish Kumar Verma, the 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. 808/2017, under Sections 420, 406, 467, 468, 471 & 323 IPC, Police Station Gazipur, District Lucknow. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 26.09.2017 against eight named persons, including the applicant Rukhsar Ahmad Shah and his wife Firdous, stating that the complainant had made investments in Umeed Trading Company but no return was paid on the investments. 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. The applicant's involvement in 30 other cases has been disclosed in paragraph 20 of the bail application, in 4 of which he stands acquitted, proceedings of 2 cases have been quashed and the applicant has been ordered to be released on bail in 13 cases of similar nature. 5. The applicant's wife Firdous has been granted bail in the present case by means of an order dated 12.08.2021 passed by a co-ordinate bench of this Court in Bail No. 10046 of 2018. 6. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Salman Abbas, Syd Shaheen Fatma, Vijay Vikram Counsel for Opposite Party(s): G.A. Rukhsar Ahmad Shah .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) investigation and a charge sheet has been submitted. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view that the grievance of the applicant is regarding non refund of investment made in a company; the applicant is in custody since 19.06.2021 whereas as per the submission of the learned counsel for the applicant even charges have not been framed till date and a co-accused person has already been granted bail, I am of the view that the applicant is also entitled to be released on bail. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant- Rukhsar Ahmad Shah 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. August 26, 2025 -Amit K- BAIL No. 8016 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench