HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8461 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE KARUNESH SINGH PAWAR, J. 1. Heard Shri Awadhesh Kumar Pal, learned counsel for the applicant, 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.215 of 2024 under Sections 103, 238 of B.N.S. registered at Police Station- Sidhauli, District- Sitapur. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged by a Village Chawkidar on 22.07.2024, stating that an unidentified dead body was lying amongst some bushes and Eucalyptus trees. 4. The postmortem report mentions an incised wound on the neck and an abrasion above the right wrist joint. The cause of death has been opined to be shock and hemorrhage due to antemortem injuries. 5. During investigation, father of the deceased stated that the deceased was having illicit relationship with a neighbor Sushila. Muskan (co-accused) the elder daughter of Sushila had got married five years ago but after her relations with her husband turned sour, she had started living with the Mohit Pal. Quarrels used to take place between Muskan and her mother Sushila. The deceased used to intervene in it which was not like by Muskan. For this reason, Muskan and Mohit killed the informant's son. 6. The informant's father stated that some villagers had seen Shagun and Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Awadhesh Kumar Pal, Sanjay Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ranjeet Singh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) Muskan going towards the place of incident in the evening of the incident and they came back between 09:00-09:30 PM which was seen by this witness himself. 7. Another witness namely Prashant Mohan Mishra also stated he had seen the deceased with Muskan and Shagun Mishra and a small girl was also present with them. 8. The recovery memo has been annexed with the bail application wherein it is recorded that police had taken Mohit Pal towards the place of the incident and on his pointing out, a knife was recovered from amongst bushes which knife had already been recovered from the place of the incident at an earlier point of time. After the recovery, the knife was wrapped in a white tissue paper. The co-accused Mohit Pal has confessed that he has killed the deceased with that knife. 9. It has been submitted that name of the applicant has come in the confessional statement of Muskan. He has been assigned the role of catching hold. The co-accused Muskan has been granted bail by the coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 27.05.2025 passed in criminal misc. bail application No. 4657 of 2025. Learned counsel for the applicant claims parity with the bail order of co-accused Muskan. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is a 28 years old woman, she is innocent, she has been falsely implicated in the present case and she has no criminal history. It has also been submitted on behalf of the applicant that the co-accused Mohit Pal has already been granted bail by this court by means of an order dated 02.05.2025, passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No.3753 of 2025. 10. Learned A.G.A. has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that allegations have been established during investigation and a charge- sheet against the applicant has been submitted. 11. On due consideration to the fact that except the confessional statement and without there being any recovery, the applicant is in jail since 01.08.2024, there is no other corroborative material in support of the prosecution case, so also the bail order of co-accused Mohit Pal and Muskan, BAIL No. 8461 of 2025 2 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 crime. 12. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 13. Let the applicant Ranjeet Singh 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, unless his appearance is exempted by the learned trial court. September 10, 2025 R.C. BAIL No. 8461 of 2025 3 (Karunesh Singh Pawar,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAM CHANDER YADAV High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench