HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 1084 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Shri Panna Lal Gupta, Learned Counsel for the applicant, and Shri Angad Kumar Vishwakarma, Learned Addl. Government Advocate, for the state. 2. The applicant has filed this application anticipatory seeking bail in F.I.R./Case Crime No. 0229 of 2024 under Sections 406, 420, 120-B, I.P.C., P.S. Mahrajganj, District Ayodhya. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an FIR lodged on 22/08/2024 against the applicant and another co-accused person, Ajit Gupta, who is described as the owner of Ani Bullion Company. The FIR states that the informant had made investments in Ani Bullion Company through the applicant, who is an agent of the company, but no return was paid on the invested amount. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the application for bail, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent, and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. The applicant's involvement in another criminal case of a similar nature has been disclosed in paragraph 25 of the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, in which he was granted bail by means of an order dated 25/09/2024, passed by a coordinate bench of this Court in anticipatory bail application No. 1081 of 2024. 5. The Learned A.G.A. has opposed the application for bail and submitted Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Panna Lal Gupta, Amit Kumar, Saurabh Kumar, Subrat Gupta Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Krishna Chandra Verma ...Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And 2 Others .....Opposite Party(s) that the allegations have been established during the investigation, and a charge sheet has been submitted on 09/12/2024. 6. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the facts that the FIR has been lodged upon non- return of investments made in a company; that there is no allegation that the applicant was a Director or any other principal position holder in the company, and that the applicant has already been granted anticipatory bail in a case of a similar nature, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be granted anticipatory bail in the present case also. 7. Accordingly, this anticipatory bail application stands allowed. 8. In the event of arrest/appearance of applicant- Krishna Chandra Verma before the learned Trial Court in the aforesaid case crime, he shall be released on anticipatory bail on his furnishing a 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 applicant shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required; (ii) that the applicant 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/her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence; (iii) that the applicant shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court' (iv) that the applicant shall appear before the trial court on each date fixed, unless personal presence is exempted; and (v) that the applicant shall not pressurize/ intimidate the prosecution witness. August 26, 2025 A.Nigam NABAIL No. 1084 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- ANUJ NIGAM High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench