Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:49086 Court No. - 13 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7786 of 2025 Applicant :- Gulab Chandra Maurya Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. Counsel for Applicant :- Imran Asim Khan Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Shri Imran Asim Khan, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Satyendra Srivastava, 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.837 of 2024 under Sections420, 409 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 05.12.2024 against 13 persons, not including the applicant, stating that the informant had made investments in Companies of Time City Group but no returns were 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. 5. The applicant's involvement in 15 other cases has been disclosed in para-21 of the bail application. Learned counsel for the applicant states that he has been released on bail in four cases. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that a co- accused person namely Deep Chandra Shukla, who was also not named in the FIR and he was subsequently implicated as he was Additional Director of the Company, has been granted anticipatory bail by means of an order dated 05.082025 passed by this Court in Crl. Misc. Anticipatory Bail Application u/S 482 BNSS No.964 of 2025. He has submitted that the applicant was also an Additional Director of the Company till 30.09.2012. 7. Learned A.G.A. has vehemently opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the investigation of the case is still going on. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail in the aforesaid case. 9. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 10. Let the applicant- Gulab Chandra Maurya be released on bail in the aforementioned case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Magistrate/Court concerned, subject to 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. . [Subhash Vidyarthi, J.] Order Date :- 21.8.2025 -Amit K- Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench