HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8445 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Shri Srees Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Satyendra Srivastava, learned Additional Government Advocate 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. 08 of 2025, under Sections 3, 5(a) U.P. Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, registered at Police Station Chandan Chauki, District Kheri. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 12.05.2025 against four persons including the applicant stating that the accused persons were pursuading some undescribed persons to convert to Christianity. The complainant got suspicious upon seeing the applicant and other persons accompanying them and they dispersed from there. 4. The learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that the F.I.R. has been lodged merely on the basis of apprehension and no victim of any offence committed by the applicant has come forward to lodged an F.I.R. or to give statement to the Investigating Officer. 5. In the affidavit filed in support of bail application it has been stated that the applicant is innocent, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no criminal history. 6. The co-accused Nekiram and Ramkishor have been granted bail by means of order dated 14.08.2025 and 22.08.2025 passed by this Court Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Srees Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Dharamveer Singh Rana .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) in CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION Nos. - 7583 of 2025 and 652 of 2025. Another co-accused Sher Singh Rana has been granted bail by means of an order dated 26.08.2025 passed by this Court in CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7973 of 2025. 7. The learned Additional Government Advocate appearing on behalf of the State has opposed the prayer for bail and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and a charge sheet has been submitted on 04.07.2025. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that no victim of any misdeed committed by the applicant has made complaint against him coupled with the fact that the applicant has no previous criminal history and he is languishing in jail since 13.05.2025 and the investigation already stands concluded and all the co- accused persons have been granted bail and without making any observation, which may affect the merits 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 crime. 9. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 10. Let the applicant- Dharamveer Singh Rana 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 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 9, 2025 S. Shivhare BAIL No. 8445 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- SHASHANK SHIVHARE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench